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Replying Again to Minister Yi's Poems on the Eight Views, Following the Rhymes — Night Rain on the Xiaoxiang次韻復和李相國八景詩各 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.

九疑山暗雨中天。有意何人不慘然。半夜人呼船閣漏。篙工執戽略難眠。

Mount Jiuyi (九疑山) under a sky dim with rain Who that has any feeling would not be desolate In the middle of the night men cry out that the boat is leaking And the boatman takes up the bailing bucket and can get no sleep at all