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Matching the Rhymes of Academician Yi's Reply to the Poem Given to Eoryuhwan次韻李學士和贈御留歡詩
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 4 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.
眩眼華筵錦繡斑。倡兒擁坐鬪紅顔。門生叢裡吾宜樂。不意賢侯許一歡。
Dazzling on the splendid mats, the silks are flecked with color, and the young entertainers, seated round, vie with their rosy faces. That I take pleasure among my disciples is only fitting, but I did not know that you, a worthy man, would allow yourself a moment's delight.
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百全
This is Baekjeon (百全).
二首
Two poems.
靑樓風味頗窺斑。老去無心翫玉顔。猶有些些餘習在。一枝花畔寄淸歡。
Of the elegance of the green bowers I have glimpsed at least a speck, but as I grow old I have no heart to delight in jade-like faces. Still a little of the old habit remains in me, and beside a single branch of blossom I lodge a clear pleasure.