Yomosugara mono omou koro wa akeyaranu neya no hima sae tsurenakarikeri - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夜もすがら物思ふころは明けやらぬ
閨のひまさへつれなかりけり

Roma-ji: Yomosugara mono omou koro wa akeyaranu neya no hima sae tsurenakarikeri
English Translation: All the long night through,
in these days when I brood on love,
the still undawning
gap within my chamber door
is as heartless as he is
Meaning: In these days when I lie awake all night lost in thoughts of love, even the gap in my bedroom door, which will not grow light, seems as cold to me as he.
Commentary: Book Twelve Love Poems II 766

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed as a love poem"
Like the preceding poem, it is composed as a love poem. In these days of brooding all night long, he says, even the gap in the bedchamber that will not lighten is cruel. Speaking as a woman who lies sleepless waiting for a lover who does not come, he has her long for the dawn and resent even the door's gap for not growing light, overlaying it with the coldness of her lover.
The author, "the monk Shun'e," was the son of Minamoto no Toshiyori. A monk of Tōdai-ji, he named his own quarters in Shirakawa the Karin'en and gathered poets there for poetry meetings. He was the poetry teacher of Kamo no Chōmei.
This celebrated poem is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, where the third line is generally given as "akeyarade."
The preceding poem, 765, finds the cock's cry bitter because the night has ended, while this poem calls the night that will not end cruel, so that two poems with reversed feelings about daybreak stand side by side.

First line, "yomosugara": "all the night long."
Second line, "mono omou koro wa": "mono omou" is to be lost in thoughts of love, "in these days when I brood."
Third line, "akeyaranu": "yaru" means to carry through and "nu" is the attributive of the negative "zu," "not yet fully dawning." It reverses "akenureba" in the third line of the preceding poem.
Fourth line, "neya no hima sae": "neya" is the bedchamber and "hima" a gap in the door; "sae" is additive, "even the gap in my chamber," implying "as well as my cold lover."
Fifth line, "tsurenakarikeri": "keri" is exclamatory, "how cruel it seems!"
Author: Shun'e
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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