Yowa ni naku koe ni kokoro zo akugaruru waga mi wa shika no tsuma naranedomo - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夜半に鳴く声に心ぞあくがるる
我が身は鹿の妻ならねども

Roma-ji: Yowa ni naku koe ni kokoro zo akugaruru waga mi wa shika no tsuma naranedomo
English Translation: At the midnight cry
of the stag, my wandering heart
is drawn away,
though I am not, it is true,
the mate for whom he's calling
Meaning: At the stag's cry in the middle of the night my heart wanders off toward it, though I am no mate of his.
Commentary: Book Three Autumn Poems 224

Hearing the stag cry at midnight, the poet's heart is drawn out and wanders toward it, though she is no mate of the deer. With a touch of humor, being drawn by a call meant for another, the poem conveys the pathos of the stag's cry.
The word akugaru also appears in poem 189 in this book, where the heart wanders off at the sight of the moon.
From poem 222 through poem 226 in this book come poems on the deer, in which the stag's cry for its mate draws out many feelings, such as the loneliness of travel and of sleeping alone.

First line, 'yowa ni naku', means crying at midnight, the voice of the deer.
Second line, 'koe ni kokoro zo', means at the voice my heart, and zo binds with the attributive akugaruru in the third line.
Third line, 'akugaruru', means for the heart to leave the body and wander. The poem breaks after the third line. Poem 189 in this book has the same word.
Fourth line, 'waga mi wa shika no', means I myself, the deer's.
Final line, 'tsuma naranedomo', means though I am not his mate, drawn though the call is not for her.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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