Wakareji o geni ika bakari nagekuramu kiku hito sae zo sode wa nurekeru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

別れ路をげにいかばかり嘆くらむ
聞く人さへぞ袖は濡れける

Roma-ji: Wakareji o geni ika bakari nagekuramu kiku hito sae zo sode wa nurekeru
English Translation: On the parting road
how deeply, truly deeply
you must be grieving:
even those who only hear of it
have found their sleeves wet with tears
Meaning: How truly deeply you must be grieving on the road of parting; even those of us who only hear of it have wet our sleeves with tears.
Commentary: Book Six Parting Poems 339

How deeply the one who has set out must truly be grieving along the road, the poem says, when even those who only hear of it find their sleeves wet with tears. Feeling for the traveler's sorrow, it shows the depth of sympathy through the tears of the listener.
Some manuscripts name Jōtōmon'in as the author and give the headnote 'She saw this and had it written down beside it.' It would then be a poem that Jōtōmon'in, having seen the preceding poem, 338, delivered to a lady in her service, had written alongside it.
Poems 338 and 339 in this book form a pair, a poem sent from the road and a poem by one who read it.

First line, 'wakareji o', means along the road of parting.
Second line, 'geni ika bakari', means truly how much, geni expressing that the grief of the preceding poem is only natural.
Third line, 'nagekuramu', means you must be grieving, using the present conjecture ramu. The poem breaks after the third line.
Fourth line, 'kiku hito sae zo', means even those who hear of it, sae adding to what came before and zo binding with the attributive keru in the final line.
Final line, 'sode wa nurekeru', means their sleeves are wet, taking up the sleeve and tears of the preceding poem, 338.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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