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Vice Minister Yi Again Replied to My Poems on Peaches and Pears and Showed Them to Me, So Following His Rhymes I Made Six Poems — Thanking Him for the Sweet Golden Pears Sent Afterward次韻李侍郞復和桃梨詩四首見示。依韻和成六首。其末二章。一謝摘盡樹上餘桃見寄。一謝最後所餉金色大梨云。 此謝後所餉金色甘梨

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 · 40 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 7 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.

金梨脩數寸。脩不要其團。大似拳堪貴。甘如蜜足飱。若容今也美。何憶昔之酸。中我病中欲。休煩裹飯看。

The golden pears are some inches in length, long-shaped, not caring to be round. Big as a fist, they may well be called precious; sweet as honey, they are worth eating. If I take in the beauty of the present, why should I think of the sourness of days gone by? They fit exactly my wish while ill, so you need not trouble to come bearing wrapped rice.

Interlinear notes 1

皆眞定梨事

All of this has to do with the pears of Zhending (眞定).