Yetgeul › Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) › Latter Collection, Book 6
Matching the Rhymes of the Venerable Yeong's Reply — Autumn Moon on Dongting Lake次韻英上人見和 洞庭秋月
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.
一輪分影也何多。炤遍汀沙又印波。把酒若成江上望。石間猶可藉紅蘿。
A single round moon — how many are the shadows it divides into! It lights the sand along the water all over, and is stamped upon the waves as well. If I could take a cup of wine and gaze out from the river, even the red ivy in a cleft of rock would do to sit upon.