Kaze samumi koe yowariyuku mushi yori mo iwade mono omou ware zo masareru - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

風寒み声弱りゆく虫よりも
言はで物思ふ我ぞまされる

Roma-ji: Kaze samumi koe yowariyuku mushi yori mo iwade mono omou ware zo masareru
English Translation: More than the insects
whose voices grow faint and weak
in the chilling wind,
I who brood and never speak
suffer the deeper sorrow.
Meaning: More than the insects whose voices weaken in the cold wind, I, who brood in silence, feel the deeper grief.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 751

Headnote: "Topic unknown"
The poem says that the poet, brooding without a word, feels more deeply than the autumn insects whose voices weaken in the cold wind. Laying over insects that can no longer sing his own suffering in a love he cannot voice, it expresses that the love is all the deeper for being unspoken. It shares the line "iwade mono omou" with the preceding poem, 750, so that poems on unspoken love stand side by side.

First line, "kaze samumi," means "since the wind is cold," with "mi" a suffix expressing cause.
Second line, "koe yowariyuku," means "whose voices grow weak," speaking of insects failing in late autumn.
Third line, "mushi yori mo," means "more than the insects."
Fourth line, "iwade mono omou," means "who broods without speaking," the same line as the fourth line of the preceding poem, 750.
Final line, "ware zo masareru," means "I surpass them," with the binding particle "zo" resolved by "ru," the attributive form of the auxiliary "ri" of continuing state.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Shui Wakashu
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