Matching the rhymes on Vice Minister Yi's gift of peaches次韻李侍郞饋桃
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) 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.
1The first poem
仙祖飡餘必種園。知君眞箇伯陽孫。投來愧欠瓊瑤報。但欲招邀倒一樽。
Surely what the immortal grandfather ate and left behind was planted in your garden;
I see that you are truly a descendant of Boyang (伯陽).
Ashamed that I cannot repay your gift with a jewel,
I wish only to welcome you in and tip up a jar.
Interlinear notes 3
需
That is Su (需).
八月十三日
It is the thirteenth day of the eighth month.
尹喜內傳云。老子與王母。共食碧桃。
The Inner Tradition of Yin Xi says that Laozi ate green peaches together with the Queen Mother of the West.
2The second poem
聞導君家好理園。果栽仙果見生孫。從來嗜食眞吾性。有此何須要酒樽。
I hear that your house is fond of tending a garden,
and that you planted immortals' fruit and have seen grandchildren of it.
From of old, delighting in eating has truly been my nature;
if I have this, why must there be a wine jar?
Interlinear notes 2
君好理園。多種名果名蔬。
You are fond of tending a garden and have planted many famous fruits and famous greens.