Urayamashi yuki no shitakusa kakiwakete tare o tōhi no wakana naruramu - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

うらやまし雪の下草かき分けて
誰をとふひの若菜なるらむ

Roma-ji: Urayamashi yuki no shitakusa kakiwakete tare o tōhi no wakana naruramu
English Translation: How I envy them!
Brushing the snow aside
from the grass beneath,
for whose visit on what day
were these young greens picked at Tobuhi?
Meaning: How I envy them! For whom, and for the day of what visit, were these young greens gathered at Tobuhi, brushing aside the snow from the grass beneath?
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 13

Headnote: "Composed and sent on hearing that on the seventh day of the First Month a lady-in-waiting of the former Empress had sent young greens to a lady who lived in my house"
On the seventh day of the New Year, hearing that a lady serving the former Empress had sent young greens to a lady living in his house, the poet composed and sent this poem. Eating young greens on that day was a custom for long life. Greens picked by brushing away the snow, he says, must be meant for someone special, and he envies the closeness of the two women.
The author, "Minister of Ceremonial Michitoshi," is Fujiwara no Michitoshi, son of Fujiwara no Tsunehira, Assistant Governor-General of Dazaifu. He rose to Provisional Middle Counselor and also served as Minister of Ceremonial. He compiled the Goshūi Wakashū at the command of Emperor Shirakawa.

First line, "urayamashi": "how enviable," the final form of the adjective, so the poem pauses after the first line. Frank feeling toward the gift of greens comes first.
Second line, "yuki no shitakusa": grass sprouting beneath the snow, here meaning the young greens.
Third line, "kakiwakete": brushing aside the snow, conveying the effort of gathering the greens and thus how much the sender cares.
Fourth line, "tare o tōhi no": "tōhi" is a pivot word meaning both "the day of visiting" and Tobuhi Field in Kasuga. Tobuhi was famed for gathering greens, and the next poem, 14, also describes greens of Kasuga Field.
Fifth line, "wakana naruramu": the conjectural "ramu" answers the question word "tare" (who) in the fourth line: "for whose visit might these greens be?"
Author: Fujiwara no Michitoshi
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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