Koiwabite osauru sode ya nagareizuru namida no kawa no iseki naruramu - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

恋ひわびて押さふる袖や流れ出づる
涙の川の井堰なるらむ

Roma-ji: Koiwabite osauru sode ya nagareizuru namida no kawa no iseki naruramu
English Translation: Pining with my love,
is the sleeve I press to my eyes
the weir that holds back
the river of my tears
that keeps on flowing out
Meaning: Pining with love, I press my sleeve to my eyes; is it, I wonder, the weir that holds back the flowing river of my tears?
Commentary: Book Seven Love Poems I 375

The poet likens the sleeve he presses to his eyes, pining with love, to a weir holding back the river of tears that pours out. Likening tears to a river and the sleeve to a weir, the poem shows the endless flood of his tears.
Some manuscripts name Fujiwara no Michitsune as the author.
Poems 375 through 377 in this book form a run on the river of tears. Poem 375 likens the sleeve to a weir, poem 376 finds the bank of discretion unable to hold back the tears, and poem 377 sings of the sleeve's weir rotted away, so that the arrangement shows the tears overflowing step by step.

First line, 'koiwabite', means pining with love. The first line of poem 414 in this book is also 'koiwabite'.
Second line, 'osauru sode ya', means the sleeve that presses back my tears, the particle ya binding with the attributive ramu in the final line.
Third line, 'nagareizuru', means flowing out, modifying the river of tears in the fourth line.
Fourth line, 'namida no kawa no', means of the river of tears. It is the same as 'namidagawa' in poem 359, the next poem, 376, and poem 377 in this book.
Final line, 'iseki naruramu', means might it be the weir, using the present conjecture ramu. It answers the second line 'sode no iseki mo' of poem 377 in this book.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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