Composed and Presented by the Hallim Academy on the Night of Lanterns in the Gisa Year — two poems on the Mungijangja (文機障子)己巳年燈夕。翰林奏呈。 文機障子詩二首
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 · 112 Chinese characters · reading time 1.1 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 13 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.
At the nine gates the cry that clears the way runs like startled thunder,
and the splendid feast at Yedal (蘂闥) is opened by the reckoning of night.
Amid the shadows of dragon candles the feathered canopies are ranged;
within the sound of phoenix flutes the golden cups go round.
They call out "Ten thousand years!" three times, and the divine mountain rises;
the sea fruit that ripens once in a thousand years arrives.
By his grace the attending officers are put in charge of the banquet music;
with the bestowed flowers thick in our caps we are helped home drunk.
Auspicious vapors wind about, and Jasin Hall (紫宸殿) stands high;
in the middle of the curtained seat I make out the crimson dragon robe.
From the grotto courts (洞府) they summon song and strike the jade cords;
the courtesans chosen by the music office are drunk on immortal peaches (仙桃).
In nine-tiered censers golden borneol is burned;
in the lamps that light all four quarters white phoenix fat is set alight.
The Queen Mother of the West offers up a thousand years of life
and calls her disciples to beat the uno (雲璈).