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Matching the Rhymes to Thank the Prefect of Gobu for Sending an Attendant, Good Wine, a Fresh Pheasant, and a Poem Besides次韻謝古阜大守送薦枕及美酒生雉兼詩

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 · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 17 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.

1First poem

飮腸雖愧與君饒。嗜酒仍貪束素腰。獨有同年知我意。一壺兼送玉人嬌。

I am ashamed my drinking belly is not so ample as yours, yet I relish wine and covet a slender waist besides. Only my examination classmate knows my mind, and sent a bottle of wine together with a lovely person.

Interlinear notes 1

二首

There are two poems.

2Second poem

雄州獵士氣豪饒。射落靑鞦箭脫腰。不待如皐能坐致。何須更挑笑顔嬌。

The hunters of a great district are bold and ample in spirit; they draw an arrow from the waist and shoot down the green plumage. Without waiting to go to Yeogo (如皐), I get it sitting still; why should I need again to coax a lovely smiling face?