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Matching the Rhymes of Chief Minister Yi (相國), Who Sent Further Answering Poems on the Eight Views of Ganzhou (虔州) — Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang (瀟湘)次韻李相國復和虔州八景詩來贈 瀟湘夜雨

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.

半夜雷潮已殷天。雨聲相助大琅然。灘波漲起孤舟帆。狎水篙工尙未眠。

At midnight thunder and tide already shake the sky, and the sound of rain joins in to swell the roar. The rapids' waves rise to the height of the lone boat's sail, so that even the boatman, used to the water, cannot sleep yet.

Interlinear notes 1

漲起孤舟帆 — some read this as meaning that the waves push up the lone boat's sail. — the translator