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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 18 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

閬苑千紅爛熳開。群仙指點倚瓊臺。擬看詩伯驚人語。故遣花王墮地來。

In Langyuan (閬苑) a thousand red blossoms have burst into bloom And the host of immortals lean on the jade terrace and point at them The foremost of poets, wishing to see words that startle men Of set purpose let the king of flowers drop down to earth

2Second poem

紅藥當階灼灼開。君今幾許詠西臺。悔將仙筆題凡品。更向名花洗手來。

The red peonies have opened bright along the stone steps And how much have you now chanted of the Western Terrace (西臺) If you repent having sung a common sort with your immortal's brush Then wash your hands and come again toward the famous flower