Toshi kurenu to bakari o koso kikamashika waga mi no ue ni tsumorazariseba - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

年暮れぬとばかりをこそ聞かましか
我が身の上に積もらざりせば

Roma-ji: Toshi kurenu to bakari o koso kikamashika waga mi no ue ni tsumorazariseba
English Translation: 'The year has ended',
only that would I have heard
and thought nothing more,
if upon me, on my own self,
the years did not pile up
Meaning: I would have heard only that the year had ended and thought nothing more of it, if the years did not pile up upon me.
Commentary: Book Four Winter Poems 303

If the years did not pile up on the poet and become old age, the news that the year has ended could be heard as nothing more than that. Through a counterfactual, the poem expresses the lament of one for whom each year's end adds to old age.
Like poem 301 and the preceding poem, 302, in this book, it laments old age at the year's end.
From poem 299 through poem 304 in this book come poems lamenting the year's end, bringing the winter book to a close.

First line, 'toshi kurenu', means the year has ended, using the perfective nu.
Second line, 'to bakari o koso', means only that, koso binding with the realis mashika in the third line.
Third line, 'kikamashika', means I would have heard, the realis of the counterfactual mashi. The poem breaks after the third line and the lower half is inverted.
Fourth line, 'waga mi no ue ni', means upon my own self.
Final line, 'tsumorazariseba', means if they had not piled up, seba answering mashi in the third line to form a counterfactual. Like 'the snow piled up' in poem 292 in this book, it uses the word tsumoru.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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