Ama no gawa kokoro o kumite omou ni mo sode koso nurure akatsuki no sora - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

天の川心をくみて思ふにも
袖こそ濡るれ暁の空

Roma-ji: Ama no gawa kokoro o kumite omou ni mo sode koso nurure akatsuki no sora
English Translation: River of Heaven:
drawing from it as I fathom
what their hearts must feel,
it is my own sleeves that are wet
beneath the sky at dawn
Meaning: As I draw from the River of Heaven, fathoming the hearts of the parting lovers, it is my own sleeves that grow wet with tears beneath the dawn sky.
Commentary: Book Four Autumn Poems I 241

Headnote: "Composed on the feeling of the morning after Tanabata"
Composed on the feeling of "the morning after Tanabata," the parting at dawn after the lovers' meeting. As the poet, as if drawing water from the River of Heaven, enters into the hearts of the parting Weaver Maid and Herdsman, it is not their sleeves but his own that are wet with tears beneath the dawn sky. Taking the sorrow of the stars' parting as his own, the poem closes the Tanabata sequence.
The author, "the Tsuchimikado Minister of the Right," is Minamoto no Morofusa, son of Prince Tomohira, himself a son of Emperor Murakami. Given a surname and made a commoner, he rose to Minister of the Right. Called the Tsuchimikado Minister of the Right after his residence at Tsuchimikado, he laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Murakami Genji.
This is the last poem of the Tanabata sequence. Where its first poem, 235, ended with "yūgure no sora," the evening sky, this one ends with "akatsuki no sora," the dawn sky, so that the sequence, which follows the course of one night from dusk to dawn, closes with the two answering each other.

First line, "ama no gawa": the heavenly river that separates the two stars, an associated word with "kumite" in the second line. Following "ama no kawara" in 239 of this book, it again names the River of Heaven.
Second line, "kokoro o kumite": "kumu" is a pivot word meaning both to "draw" water from the River of Heaven and to fathom the stars' hearts.
Third line, "omou ni mo": "as I think of them."
Fourth line, "sode koso nurure": "koso" closes with the realized form "nurure," stressing that it is my sleeves, not those of the parting stars, that are wet. The poem pauses here.
Fifth line, "akatsuki no sora": ends on a noun, marking the hour of the dawn parting. It pairs with "yūgure no sora" in 235, the first poem of the sequence, and closes the Tanabata poems.
Author: Minamoto no Morofusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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