The three kingdoms and Unified Silla (57 B.C.-A.D. 935). Foundation myths. Tangun ; Pak Hyŏkkŏse, the founder of Silla ; The lay of King Tongmyŏng ; King Suro, the founder of Karak ; Husband Yŏno, Wife Seo -- Old Korean poetry : hyangga. Prayer to Amitābha / Kwangdŏk ; Ode to Knight Chukchi / Siro ; Regret / Sinch'ung ; Requiem / Master Wŏlmyŏng ; Ode to Knight Kip'a / Master Ch'ungdam ; Hymn to the thousand-eyed goddess / Hŭimyŏng ; Meeting with bandits / Priest Yŏngjae ; Song of Ch'ŏyong / Ch'ŏyong ; from Eleven devotional poems / Great Master Kyunyŏ -- Biographies. Ondal ; Tomi ; Wŏn'gwang ; Wŏnhyo ; Ŭisang -- Poetry in Chinese. On the road ; At the Ugang Station ; In autumn rain ; Night rain in a postal station ; On seeing a fellow villager off in Shan-yang ; Inscribed at the study on Mount Kaya / Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn.

Koryŏ Dynasty (918-1392). Koryŏ songs : changga. The Turkish bakery ; Ode on the seasons ; Song of P'yongyang ; Song of Green Mountain ; Winter night ; Will you go? ; Spring overflows the pavilion ; Song of the gong -- Prose essays. On demolishing the earthen chamber ; Questions to the Creator / Yi Kyu-bo ; A record of the bamboo in the bamboo arbor of the Woltŭng Monastery / Monk Sigyŏngam ; Descriptions of the Cloud Brocade Tower / Yi Che-hyŏn -- Poetry in Chinese. Parting ; After drinking / Chŏng Chi-sang ; Harmonizing with Secretary Chŏng on the ninth day ; Upon first returning home / Ch'oe Yo-ch'ŏng ; Cicada ; On the river on a spring day ; Mountain dwelling ; Written on the wall of the Ch'ŏnsu Monastery ; Transplanting bamboo on bamboos-are-drunk day / Yi Il-lo ; The cock / Yi Kyu-bo ; Ancient airs (four poems) / Yi Che-hyŏn ; A returning sail at Chinp'o ; Moon viewing at Cold Cove / Yi Saek ; Spring mood / Chŏng Mong-ju ; To a monk going to the Diamond Mountains / Sŏng Sŏng-nin ; Plum / Chŏng To-jŏn ; In retirement / Yi Ch'ŏm ; Impromptu / Kil Chae -- Poems in Chinese by Zen masters. Like the sun ; Night rain / National Preceptor Chin'gak ; Clay oxen ; In the mountain ; To a friend seeking Potalaka / Master Paegun ; Nothingness ; Herding the ox in the Himalayas ; At deathbed / National Preceptor T'aego ; In the mountains / Royal Preceptor Naong.

Yi Dynasty (1392-1910). Songs of flying dragons (1445-1447) -- Early Yi romance. Student Yi peers over the wall / Kim Si-sŭp -- Sijo I. U T'ak ; Yi Cho-nyŏn ; Chŏng Mong-ju ; Hwang Hŭi ; King Sŏngjong ; King Chŏng-gu ; Song Sun ; Yi Hwang ; Yu Hŭi-ch'un ; Hwang Chin-i ; Kwŏn Ho-mun ; Sŏng Hon ; Chŏng Ch'ol ; Yi Wŏn-ik ; Im Che ; Myŏngok -- Prose portraits. From The storyteller's miscellany / Ŏ Suk-kwŏn -- Kasa I. The wanderings ; Hymn of constancy ; Little odes on Mount Star / Chŏng Ch'ŏl ; A woman's sorrow / Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn -- A tale of adventure. The tale of Hong Kiltong / Hŏ Kyun -- Poetry in Chinese I. Rice cooked with pine bark / Great Master Hamhŏ ; Written on the wall of my house / Ŏ Pyŏn-gap ; Chrysanthemum / Ŏ Se-gyŏm ; On a parrot presented by the Liu-ch'iu envoy / Kim Chong-jik ; On my trip to Tsushima / Kim Hŭn ; Upon seeing someone felling plum trees / Ŏ Mu-jŏk ; Upon listening to the flute (linked verse) ; Taking leave of Minister So Se-yang / Hwang Chin-i ; To a drunken guest / Yi Hyang-gŭm ; On the Southern Sea ; The dozing monk ; In praise of the portrait of my former master / Great Master Sŏsan ; At the moment of my death / Great Master Chŏnggwan ; By chance / Sŏng Hon ; In the mountain / Yi I ; A girl pounding grain / Yu Yŏng-gil ; In the Chinhae Camp / Yi Sun-sin ; A woman's sorrow / Im Che ; A poor woman / Yu Mong-in ; Wondrous truth / Great Master Soyo ; Poor woman / Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn ; Upon reading Tu Fu's poetry / Kwŏn P'il ; In Peking to a woman with a veil / Cho Hwi ; Moutain temple / Yi Tal ; Upon reading Chuang Tzu / Great Master Chunggwan -- Later Yi romance. A dream of nine clouds / Kim Man-jung.

Sijo II. Cho Chon-sŏng ; Yi Tŏk-hyŏng ; Kim Sang-yong ; Shin Hŭm ; Kim Kwang-uk ; from Dispelling gloom ; Sunset ; Songs of five friends ; To my friend ; From The angler's calendar / Yun Sŏn-do ; Yi Myŏng-han ; King Hyojong ; Nam Ku-man ; Yi T'aek ; Chu Ŭi-sik ; Kim Su-jang ; Yi Chŏng-bo ; Kim Ch'ŏn-t'aek ; Yun Tu-sŏ ; An Min-yŏng ; Anonymous sijo -- Kasa II. Grand trip to Japan / Kim In-gyŏm ; An exile's life / An To-wŏn ; The farmer's works and days / Chŏng Hag-yu -- Satirical stories. The story of Master Hŏ ; The story of a yangban / Pak Chi-wŏn ; On dismissing a servant / Chŏng Yag-yong ; The story of a pheasant cock / Anonymous -- Women writers. from A record of sorrowful days / Princess Hyegyŏng ; Viewing the sunrise / Lady Ŭiyudang ; Lament for a needle ; The dispute of a woman's seven companions / Anonymous -- The art of the singer : p'ansori. The art of the singer / Shin Chae-hyo ; Preface to Songs of the Kwanghan Pavilion / Yun Kyŏng-sun ; The song of a faithful wife, Ch'unhyang -- Sasŏl sijo. Preface to Songs of green hills / Chŏng Yun-gyŏng ; Sasŏl sijo -- Poetry in Chinese II. Yearning / Monk Ch'ŏnghak ; Newly returned swallows / Yi Shik ; In the Shen-yang Prison harmonizing with a poem by Kim Sang-hŏn / Ch'oe Myŏng-gil ; Exiled to the north / Yun Sŏn-do ; Mountain folk / Kim Ch'ang-hyŏp ; Waiting for my love / Nŭngun ; A song for my shadow / Kim Pyŏng-yŏn ; To a friend / Pyŏn Wŏn-gyu -- Glossary.