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Matching the Rhymes of Donggoja's Poem Written to Du Mu's Rhymes, Thinking of Deokjeon次韻東皐子用杜牧韻。憶德全。

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 1 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.

歸去追彭澤。佯狂憶翰林。一心山色古。雙鬢雪痕深。鸎日漫多思。鴈天空寄音。每逢詩酒會。誰與放高吟。

I would go home and follow Pengze (彭澤), and think of the Hanlin Academician (翰林) who feigned madness. My single heart is as old as the mountains' hue, my two temples as deep as traces of snow. On days when the orioles cry my thoughts run idly many, and to the sky where the wild geese fly I send word in vain. Whenever I come upon a gathering of poetry and wine, with whom shall I chant aloud to my heart's content?