Koiwaburu kokoro wa sora ni ukinuredo namida no soko ni mi wa shizumu kana - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋ひわぶる心は空に浮きぬれど
涙の底に身は沈むかな

Roma-ji: Koiwaburu kokoro wa sora ni ukinuredo namida no soko ni mi wa shizumu kana
English Translation: My heart, worn with love,
has drifted up into the sky,
floating far away,
yet down to the depths of tears
this body of mine is sinking
Meaning: My heart, worn out with love, has floated off into the sky, yet my body sinks down to the bottom of my tears.
Commentary: Book Fifteen Love Poems V 947

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My heart, worn out with love, has floated off into the sky, he says, yet my body sinks to the bottom of my tears. In his anguish of love his heart grows absent and wanders from his body, while the body left behind sinks into the depths of the tears he sheds; through the contrasts of heart and body, floating and sinking, sky and depths, the poem expresses a torment of love that tears body and heart apart.
The author, "Major Captain of the Right Palace Guards Sanefusa," is Sanjō Sanefusa. The son of Palace Minister Fujiwara no Kiminori, he belonged to the Sanjō house. After serving as Major Captain of the Right Palace Guards he later rose to Minister of the Left, and on taking the tonsure was called the Sanjō Lay Priest Minister of the Left. He left the diary Gumaiki.
Like 923 and 924 of this book, which sing of the soul leaving the body to wander, this poem says that the heart leaves the body to float in the sky.

First line, "koiwaburu": "koiwabu" means to be worn out with love.
Second line, "kokoro wa sora ni": "the heart, into the sky," with the sense of being absent-minded. "Kokoro," "heart," pairs with "mi," "body," in the last line, and "sora," "sky," forms an up-and-down contrast with "soko," "depths," in the fourth line.
Third line, "ukinuredo": "uki" means to leave the body and wander, and "nure," the perfective of the perfective "nu," with "do" gives a concessive, "though it has floated off." It pairs with "shizumu," "sinks," in the last line, and shares "uku" with "ukinuru tama no" in the second line of 924 of this book.
Fourth line, "namida no soko ni": "to the bottom of my tears," likening the abundance of tears to deep water.
Fifth line, "mi wa shizumu kana": "kana" is exclamatory, "how my body sinks." "Shizumu" overlays sinking in tears and sinking in grief.
Author: Sanjō Sanefusa
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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