Omoiyare meguriaubeki haru dani mo tachiwakaruru wa kanashikari keri - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

思ひやれめぐりあふべき春だにも
立ち別るるは悲しかりけり

Roma-ji: Omoiyare meguriaubeki haru dani mo tachiwakaruru wa kanashikari keri
English Translation: Try to understand:
even spring, which will return
and meet us again,
when it rises to depart
fills the heart with grief, I find
Meaning: Imagine how it feels: even spring, which is sure to come round again, brings sorrow when it departs.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 93

Even spring, which will surely return next year, is so sad to part from, the poet says; imagine, then, how it feels. Though it is a poem of late spring, it carries a lingering sense of the sorrow of partings that may never be followed by another meeting.
This poem stands at the end of Book One. Against poem 1 at the head of the book, which sings 'spring has come at last', it closes the book with a farewell to spring.
The author, Akisuke, is Fujiwara no Akisuke. A son of Fujiwara no Akisue, he rose to Master of the Western Capital Office. A poet of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he compiled the Shikawakashū at the command of Retired Emperor Sutoku.

First line, 'omoiyare', is a command, imagine it, and the poem breaks after the first line.
Second line, 'meguriaubeki', means which should come round to meet again, referring to spring's return every year.
Third line, 'haru dani mo', uses dani, which names a lesser case to imply a greater one: even spring.
Fourth line, 'tachiwakaruru wa', means parting from spring, with tatsu echoing the rising of spring.
Final line, 'kanashikari keri', means it is sad. Like 'has come at last' in poem 1, it ends with keri, so that the beginning and end of spring answer each other.
Author: Fujiwara no Akisuke
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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