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After the Common Chrysanthemums Were All Gone, Seeing the Famed Chrysanthemum in Full Bloom Toward the End of the Ninth Month, I Loved It and Chanted of It雜菊皆盡。見名菊至九月向晦盛開。愛而賦之。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 5 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.
黃花雖似與秋期。及此霜深豈發時。尙把淸香開艶艶。一枝何忍損浮巵。
The yellow flower seems to have made its appointment with autumn but with the frost this deep, how is this a time to bloom? Yet it holds a clear fragrance and has bloomed beautifully how could I bear to harm a branch and float it in the cup?
Interlinear notes 1
豈發時。一作已後時。
For 'how is this a time to bloom,' some texts have 'the time is already past.'