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Matching the Rhymes of Yi, Director of the Chancellery, Who Sent a Poem in Reply to the One Thanking Him for His Visit次韻李平章和謝訪詩見寄

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 · 1 passages · 56 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

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.

枉臨顔巷未多時。傾渴猶思玉樹枝。已喜溪氷微破脉。更堪門柳暗嚬眉。詩場何日同君快。春色如期不我欺。但愧倦還毛羽弱。鸞凰飛處怯攀追。

It is not long since you bent your way down to my shabby lane, yet thirsting I lean toward you and still long for that branch of jade. Already I am glad that the brook's ice has opened a little and the water runs, and I can enjoy besides the willows at my gate secretly knitting their brows. On what day shall I be merry with you in the courtyard of poetry? The light of spring keeps its promise and does not deceive me. Only I am ashamed of coming home weary, my wings grown weak, and afraid to climb after you where the simurgh and phoenix fly.

Interlinear notes 4

仁植

Insik (仁植)

公以暄時相見爲期。故有是句。

The Lord promised to meet when the days turned warm, and hence this line.

致仕故云。

He had retired from office, and so he says this.

更堪 — this is also read the other way round, as "how much less could I bear it." — translator