This is a well-known tanka poem which you will find in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology.  The interpretation of the poem is that it expresses a desperate wish to meet someone who, for certain reasons, the author cannot meet, moreover, without anyone knowing.

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百人一首にも載っている有名な短歌。訳あって会えない人に会いたいとの内容だそうです。それも人に知られないで。

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