Morotomo ni haru no hana o ba mishi mono o hito ni okururu aki zo kanashiki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

もろともに春の花をば見しものを
人に後るる秋ぞ悲しき

Roma-ji: Morotomo ni haru no hana o ba mishi mono o hito ni okururu aki zo kanashiki
English Translation: Together with you
I looked on the blossoms
of spring, and yet now
how sad this autumn, when I
am left behind by all
Meaning: In spring I viewed the blossoms with you all, yet now how sad this autumn is, when I am left behind.
Commentary: Book Nine Poems of Lament 569

Headnote: "Sent when, while I was a chamberlain, in the autumn I went into mourning for a parent, I heard that the courtiers were going to Sagano to view the flowers"
Sent in the autumn when the poet, then a chamberlain, went into mourning for a parent and heard that the courtiers were going to Sagano to see the autumn flowers. In spring we saw the blossoms together, he says, yet sad is this autumn when I am left behind. To the loneliness of being unable to join his friends' outing because of mourning he adds the grief of being left behind by a parent who died, expressing both feelings in the single word "okururu."
The author, "Taira no Masayasu," was an official of the late Heian period who, as the headnote shows, served as a chamberlain, but little is known of his life.
In this book 576 and 603 also open with "morotomo ni," contrasting days spent together with the present in which one is left alone.

First line, "morotomo ni": "together." Poems 576 and 603 of this book open with the same words.
Second line, "haru no hana o ba": "o ba," the particle "o" with "wa" voiced, marks the object strongly. It sets spring against the "autumn" of the last line.
Third line, "mishi mono o": "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki" and "mono o" concessive, "though we saw them."
Fourth line, "hito ni okururu": overlaying being left behind by his friends and unable to join the outing with being left behind by a parent who died.
Fifth line, "aki zo kanashiki": the emphatic "zo" closes with the attributive "kanashiki," the sorrow of being unable to join the autumn outing.
Author: Taira no Masayasu
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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