Drinking at Vice Minister Yu's House and Thanking Him the Next Day with a Poem — A Double-Rhymed Palindrome飮兪侍郞家。明日以詩謝之。雙韻廻文。
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 · 70 Chinese characters · reading time 0.8 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 16 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.
Indigo green is sprinkled on the stream and the ice breaks like a mirror,
and a ripened red, steeped in its halo, gives birth to peach and apricot.
The blind flutters, and a light wind stills the cool pavilion,
while chattering, crying birds wake us from sleep.
Fine relishes of two flavors were piled on tray and dish,
and adding bottles he pressed us often, urging with a stern drinking-law.
Three of them were lofty and pure, drinking only tea,
and shame on me, who alone tipped the cup and drained it dry.
My jacket and cap were upturned and askew, and I set them straight again;
and when the talk was done and I came back, only then had the sun gone slanting.
Interlinear notes 1
主人與兩客不飮。
The host and two of the guests did not drink wine.