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Chanting the Crabapple Blossom (海棠) at the House of Baek Bunhwa, Cheonwon (天院) — Using the Rhymes of Bai Letian's Poem白天院賁華家賦海棠。用樂天詩韻。
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.
似識先生用意栽。故應恰恰趁時開。龔妃嬌侍臨春閣。楚女閑過夢雨臺。映日醺𨠑顔更爛。隔林羞澁笑猶迴。浮紅一餉終如夢。更約明朝把酒來。
As if it knew the master had set his mind on planting it, it has deliberately bloomed just at the fitting time. Like Consort Gong (龔妃) attending in her beauty at the Linchun Pavilion (臨春閣), like a woman of Chu passing idly by the Mengyu Terrace (夢雨臺). Lit by the sun, its half-drunken face is lovelier still; beyond the grove it grows bashful and draws its smile back in. The floating red lasts but a moment and is in the end like a dream, so I promise to come again tomorrow morning with wine in hand.
Interlinear notes 1
李秀才同賦。
Yi the Licentiate (秀才) composed one together.