Asamashiku namida ni ukabu waga mi kana kokoro karuku wa omowazarishi o - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

あさましく涙に浮かぶ我が身かな
心軽くは思はざりしを

Roma-ji: Asamashiku namida ni ukabu waga mi kana kokoro karuku wa omowazarishi o
English Translation: How shocking it is—
this body of mine adrift
on a sea of tears,
though it was not lightly
that I set my heart on you
Meaning: How shocking, this self of mine set afloat on my tears, though it was never lightly that I loved.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 463

How shocking, the poet says, to be floating adrift in tears, when it was never with a light heart that she loved. Making floating and lightness related words, the poem laments a self drifting in tears like someone carried away by fancy, though her love was earnest.
The opening line asamashiku is the same word as asamashige in poem 428 and asamashi ya in the closing poem, 515.

First line, 'asamashiku', means shockingly, the same word as asamashige ni mo in the fourth line of poem 428 and asamashi ya in the first line of the closing poem, 515.
Second line, 'namida ni ukabu', means floating in tears, likening overflowing tears to a river or sea.
Third line, 'waga mi kana', means this self of mine, the poem breaking after the third line with the exclamatory kana.
Fourth line, 'kokoro karuku wa', means with a light heart, a word related to floating in the second line.
Final line, 'omowazarishi o', means though I did not think so, with the negative zu, the past ki and the concessive o.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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