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On the Twenty-Ninth Day of the Ninth Month Privy Councillor Bak Invited Me Again to Drink and View the Chrysanthemums; Before the Wine Was Set Out, I Recited This on the Spot九月二十九。朴樞府又邀飮賞菊。未置酒。卽席口號。

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 · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.3 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 6 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.

九月霜風斗頓寒。繁英猶媚綠陰間。客來莫問花多少。黃白交開十八般。

The frost wind of the ninth month has turned cold all at once, yet the thick blossoms are still lovely among the green shade. When a guest comes, do not ask how many flowers there are: yellow and white open mingled together, in eighteen kinds.

Interlinear notes 1

公自言菊凡十八種。

My lord himself said that the chrysanthemums came to eighteen kinds in all.