Waga koi no omou bakari no iro ni ideba iwade mo hito ni miemashi mono o - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我が恋の思ふばかりの色に出でば
言はでも人に見えましものを

Roma-ji: Waga koi no omou bakari no iro ni ideba iwade mo hito ni miemashi mono o
English Translation: If this love of mine
would show its color as deep
as I feel it, then
without my saying a word
you would surely see it all
Meaning: If my love would show its color as deeply as I feel it, then even without a word you would surely see it.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 450

If his love would show its color as deep as he feels it, the poet says, the beloved would understand it without his saying a word. Through a contrary-to-fact supposition, the poem conveys the frustration of being unable to confess.
Poem 444 in this book sings that the heart, which shows no color, can be held down while tears cannot, and this poem, frustrated that love does not show its color, forms the opposite pair to it.

First line, 'waga koi no', means my love.
Second line, 'omou bakari no', means as deep as I feel it, the particle bakari expressing degree.
Third line, 'iro ni ideba', means if it showed outwardly, a supposition formed by the irrealis with ba.
Fourth line, 'iwade mo hito ni', means even without speaking, to you, using the negative connective de.
Final line, 'miemashi mono o', means it would be seen, the contrary-to-fact mashi followed by mono o, in answer to ideba in the third line.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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