Saritomo to omou kagiri wa shinobarete tori to tomo ni zo ne wa nakarekeru - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

さりともと思ふ限りは忍ばれて
鳥とともにぞ音は泣かれける

Roma-ji: Saritomo to omou kagiri wa shinobarete tori to tomo ni zo ne wa nakarekeru
English Translation: While I could still think
that surely in the end you'd come,
I held back my tears,
but along with the cock's crow
I found myself crying aloud
Meaning: As long as I could still hope that you would come after all, I held back my tears; but with the crowing of the dawn bird, I found myself weeping aloud.
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 352

While the poet still hoped the beloved would come, he could hold back his tears; but when the bird announcing dawn began to cry, he too found himself crying aloud along with it. The moment when the night of waiting ends and hope dies is laid over the crowing of the cock.
Some manuscripts give the headnote 'Composed on love at dawn.' It would then be a poem on the topic of love at daybreak.
The author, Akinaka, is Minamoto no Akinaka. A son of the Minister of the Right Minamoto no Akifusa, he rose to Head of the Council of Divinities and was one of the poets of the Horikawa Hundred-Poem Sequences.

First line, 'saritomo to', means surely in the end, showing the hope that the beloved would come.
Second line, 'omou kagiri wa', means as long as I thought so.
Third line, 'shinobarete', means I could bear it, using the potential ru.
Fourth line, 'tori to tomo ni zo', means along with the cock at dawn, the particle zo binding with the attributive keru in the final line. The crowing of the cock and the poet's own crying are laid over one another. Poem 361 in this book likewise lays the poet's crying over the cries of plovers on the shore.
Final line, 'ne wa nakarekeru', means I found myself crying aloud, the spontaneous ru joined to the exclamatory keri.
Author: Minamoto no Akinaka
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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