思ひあまり言ひ出でしこそ池水の
深き心のほどは知られめ
深き心のほどは知られめ
- Roma-ji
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Omoiamari iiideshi koso ikemizu no fukaki kokoro no hodo wa shirarame
- English Translation
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Unable to hold
my love, I've spoken it out—
only now will be known,
deep as water in a pond,
the measure of my heart.
- Meaning
- Only now that I have spoken, unable to hold back my love, will you know how deep my heart is, deep as the water of a pond.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1241
Headnote: "One hundred and ten love poems"
The first of a sequence of one hundred and ten love poems. Only because I could not contain my feelings and spoke them aloud, the poet says, will you come to know my heart, deep as the water of a pond.
It sings of love's beginning, when hidden feeling overflows into confession. The sequence of love poems runs to 1350, moving through the phases of love: hidden love, love fulfilled, love resentful. Ikemizu no, "like pond water," is a figure leading into "deep."
First line, “omoiamari”: unable to contain my feelings; the line has an extra syllable.
Second line, “iiideshi koso”: precisely because I spoke out; koso is answered by the realis me in the fifth line; the text has iiideshi.
Third line, “ikemizu no”: like the water of a pond, a figure leading into "deep."
Fourth line, “fukaki kokoro no”: of a deep heart.
Fifth line, “hodo wa shirarame”: me, the realis of mu, "its depth will be known."
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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