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Matching the Rhymes, Harmonizing with Minister Choe Seon's Reply to Vice Director (郞中) Hwang's 「Six Poems on the Flowerpots at the House of Pak of the Inner Garden」 — The Pomegranate Flower次韻。和崔相國詵和黃郞中題朴內園家盆中六詠。 石榴花

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 7 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.

例憑土肉得繁枝。猒見群紅婀娜姿。賴爾花中獨安石。鐵膓如我尙開眉。

As a rule they lean on the flesh of the soil and get their teeming branches, and I have had my fill of the swaying airs of all those red things. Thanks to you, alone among flowers come from the land of Anseok (安石國), even iron bowels like mine unknit their brows.