Matching the Rhymes of Vice Minister Yi Su's Further Reply to My Poem of a Stifled Heart — Another Poem次韻李侍郞需復和鬱懷詩 又
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 · 76 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 10 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.
The place where my mind is set is empty and clear
What then can be done with this winding stifle
To show oneself brightly and boast of wealth and rank
Is all to be made the servant of things
This old man, white-haired, failing and aged
Is stifled and stifled, like a bird shut in a cage that would break away
You spread out your splendid writing, like red brocade
And a bright moon opens in my clouded eyes
The scent of green wine fills the cup
Come and call on me, and I shall surely pour it out crosswise and lengthwise and tip up the true feeling sunk within
The habit I carry too far is only this chronic ill called poetry
Who is there that could break it and bend it