Visiting Head Seat Yeong, Lying at Night in the Abbot's Room, Matching Master Yeong's Rhymes訪聆首座。夜臥方丈。次聆公韻。
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 · 2 passages · 84 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 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.
The stone path winds and bends, but I stride right over it,
treading the mud and shaking off the snow to seek the monk's house.
In the wind-cold old hall the wind-chime's voice is choked;
in the moon-white empty court the pagoda's shadow slants.
Before Nanguo's (南郭) armrest I hear the piping of the earth;
on the robe at Biya (毗耶) the flowers of heaven come falling.
The night is deep, and it is just the hour for dreaming together —
and I too, of late, have driven out the serpent of sleep.
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二首
Two poems.
足庵高寄碧巖根。銀葉燒香夜閉門。不用蓮花空作漏。飢飡困臥是朝昏。
Jogam is lodged high at the foot of a blue crag;
he burns incense in a silver-leaf censer and shuts the gate at night.
There is no need to set a lotus clepsydra going for nothing:
eat when hungry, lie down when weary — that is his morning and his evening.
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師號其居曰足庵
The monk named the place where he lives Jogam (足庵).