Toshi furedo aware ni taenu namida kana koishiki hito no kakaramashikaba - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

年経れどあはれに堪へぬ涙かな
恋しき人のかからましかば

Roma-ji: Toshi furedo aware ni taenu namida kana koishiki hito no kakaramashikaba
English Translation: Though the years go by,
how my tears still overflow
with a grief too deep to bear;
if only the one I love
were to feel the same as this
Meaning: Though the years go by, my tears still overflow, unable to bear the depth of feeling; if only the one I love were moved like this as well.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 939

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Composed by His Majesty as a love poem when he called for hundred-poem sequences"
A love poem from the same hundred-poem sequence as the preceding poem. Though the years pass, he says, how my tears overflow beyond bearing; if only the one I love were like this. Long years have gone by, yet the tears of longing do not stop, while the beloved is not moved in the least. If only she too would weep like this, he says, breaking off the last line and leaving the feeling of an unrequited love to linger.
The author, "Akisuke, Master of the Western Capital Office," is Fujiwara no Akisuke. The son of Fujiwara no Akisue, Master of the Office of Palace Repairs, he served as Master of the Western Capital Office and compiled the Shika Wakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Sutoku. He laid the foundations of the poetic learning of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, and a poem of his is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
It opens with the same first line as 937 of this book, "toshi furedo." Where 937 sings of a self and the other's cruelty that do not change with the years, this poem sings of tears that keep falling unchanged through the years. It is followed by the next poem, 940, "otsuru namida ka," so that poems on tears continue.

First line, "toshi furedo": "though the years pass," the perfective with "do" giving a concessive fixed condition. It is the same as the first line of 937 of this book.
Second line, "aware ni taenu": "aware" is deep feeling, "tae" means to bear, and "nu" is the attributive of the negative "zu," "unable to bear the depth of feeling."
Third line, "namida kana": "kana" is exclamatory, "oh, these tears." The poem pauses here. It answers "otsuru namida ka" in the last line of the next poem, 940.
Fourth line, "koishiki hito no": "the one I love."
Fifth line, "kakaramashikaba": "kakara" is the irrealis of "kakari," "to be thus," and "mashika" the irrealis of the counterfactual "mashi," and with "ba" it means "if only they were thus." It breaks off before the unspoken "how happy I would be."
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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