Yetgeul › Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) › Former Collection, Book 2

Eight Songs on Minister Gi's Toesik-jae (退食齋) — Dongnak-won (獨樂園), the Garden of Joy Alone奇尙書退食齋八詠 獨樂園

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 2 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.

一泉寒水呼隣吸。滿榻淸風共客分。唯有名園靜中樂。不曾容易使人聞。

The cold water of one spring he calls his neighbors in to drink and the clear wind that fills his bench he shares with his guests Only the joy at the still center of this famed garden he has never let others hear of easily

Interlinear notes 1

縱隣里入汲井。

He allowed the people of the neighboring village to come in and draw from the well.