Mukashi ni mo aranu sugata ni nariyukedo nageki nomi koso omogawari sene - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

昔にもあらぬ姿になりゆけど
嘆きのみこそ面変はりせね

Roma-ji: Mukashi ni mo aranu sugata ni nariyukedo nageki nomi koso omogawari sene
English Translation: Though I have become
a figure quite unlike
myself long ago,
it is my grief alone that
has not altered its face at all
Meaning: Though I am becoming someone who looks nothing like I did long ago, my grief alone has not changed its face at all.
Commentary: Book Nine Miscellaneous Poems I 585

Though growing old into a figure quite unlike the self of long ago, the poet says, grief alone has not changed in the least. Contrasting the change of appearance with the constancy of grief, the poem expresses that while the face ages and alters, the sorrow in the heart goes on unchanged.
Like poem 576 in this book, which sang that though dear ones leave, tears alone never fall behind, this poem sings of grief as what remains unchanged. The next poem, 586, also laments old age.

First line, 'mukashi ni mo', means than long ago.
Second line, 'aranu sugata ni', means into a different figure, using the attributive of the negative zu.
Third line, 'nariyukedo', means though I am becoming, using the concessive do.
Fourth line, 'nageki nomi koso', means grief alone, the particle koso answered by ne in the final line.
Final line, 'omogawari sene', means does not change its face, ne, the realis of the negative zu, answering koso in the fourth line. Omogawari, a change of countenance, pairs with sugata in the second line.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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