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Matching the Rhymes of Bai Letian's Fifteen Poems Written in Illness — Sending Away the Courtesan Liuzhi (柳枝) (次韻和白樂天病中十五首 放柳枝。)次韻和白樂天病中十五首 放柳枝。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 2 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.
少年携妓夢魂中。已是蕭然白首翁。紅頰翠娥何處散。落花飄蕩揔隨風。
The days of my youth, roaming with courtesans, lie within a dream, and now I am only a desolate white-haired old man. Where have the red cheeks and the lovely brows scattered to? Fallen blossoms flutter and all go off with the wind.
Interlinear notes 1
以憶舊妓代之。
Put in place of "Thinking of a Courtesan of Old."