Hi no uchi ni mono o futatabi omou kana toku akenuru to osoku kururu to - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

日のうちに物を二たび思ふかな
疾く明けぬると遅く暮るると

Roma-ji: Hi no uchi ni mono o futatabi omou kana toku akenuru to osoku kururu to
English Translation: Within a single day
twice I find myself brooding:
how quick came the dawn,
and how slowly, slowly now
the evening is coming on.
Meaning: Within a single day I brood twice: that the night has ended so soon, and that the evening is so slow to come.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 723

Headnote: "After beginning to visit a woman"
The poem says that within a single day the poet broods twice, once because dawn came so soon and once because evening comes so slowly. The headnote shows it was composed when he had just begun visiting a woman. In paired phrases it captures the mismatch in how time is felt, the night of meeting ending quickly and the day before the next meeting refusing to end, skillfully catching the heart of a love newly begun.
The author, Ōe no Tamemoto, was a son of Ōe no Tadahira and an official and poet of the mid-Heian period.

First line, "hi no uchi ni," means "within a single day."
Second line, "mono o futatabi," means "brooding twice."
Third line, "omou kana," means "how I brood," with "kana" exclamatory. The poem breaks after this third line.
Fourth line, "toku akenuru to," means "that dawn came so soon," with "nuru" the attributive form of the perfective "nu."
Final line, "osoku kururu to," means "and that dusk comes so slowly," pairing with the fourth line to contrast "toku" and "osoku," quick and slow, and "ake" and "kuru," dawn and dusk. In inverted order it gives the content of the brooding in the second line.
Author: Ōe no Tamemoto
Source: Shui Wakashu
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