Yume ni dani au to wa mie yo samo koso wa utsutsu ni tsuraki kokoro naritomo - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

夢にだに逢ふとは見えよさもこそは
現につらき心なりとも

Roma-ji: Yume ni dani au to wa mie yo samo koso wa utsutsu ni tsuraki kokoro naritomo
English Translation: In dreams at least,
let me see that we have met,
even if it's so
that in the waking world
your heart is cold to me
Meaning: At least in my dreams, let me see us meeting, even if in the waking world your heart stays cold to me.
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 365

However cold the beloved's heart may be in waking life, the poet asks at least to be shown a meeting in dreams. Giving up on a real meeting, the poem expresses a heart that rests its hopes on dreams alone.
Some manuscripts name Fujiwara no Saneyoshi as the author and give the headnote 'Composed on love likened to dreams.' It would then be a poem on that topic.
Poems 354, 381 and 415 in this book also sing of dream and waking.

First line, 'yume ni dani', means in dreams at least, using the particle dani.
Second line, 'au to wa mie yo', means let me see that we meet, an imperative expressing a wish. The poem breaks after the second line.
Third line, 'samo koso wa', means however it may be, answering tomo in the final line to mean even if that is so.
Fourth line, 'utsutsu ni tsuraki', means cold in waking life, set against the dream of the first line. It also answers the second line 'utsutsu no kai wa' of poem 354 in this book.
Final line, 'kokoro naritomo', means even if your heart is so, using the concessive supposition tomo.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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