There is a poem I ran across some time ago, called Changiparangga (찬기파랑가), which I liked but I didn't want to post it simply in translation – which is the form I encountered. I wanted to post the original.
But… the poem is 1300 years old. It was written by a Korean, but in Classical Chinese – as poems in that era were typically written. I know absolutely nothing about Classical Chinese, and I am not conversant in the discourses of Korean philology, either. So representing an "original" of this poem is a fraught proposition at best. Nevertheless, the text below seems to be the "original" (원문) in circulation. The "transcriptions" provided on Korean websites already are too opaque for me to make heads or tails of – they use obsolete Korean "jamo" characters to represent the Chinese sounds, and these aren't even unicode, but are instead gifs (picture files) that are being posted. I don't feel comfortable borrowing those when I don't even understand them. So there is no hangul transcription for this, and I couldn't find anything that looked like an "authoritative" modern Koreanization of the poem (which would be in the vein of a modernization of something like Beowulf in English literature).
The original:
찬기파랑가 – 讚耆婆郞歌
咽嗚爾處米
露曉邪隱月羅理
白雲音逐干浮去隱安支下
沙是八陵隱汀理也中
耆郞矣兒史是史藪邪
逸烏川理叱磧惡希
郞也持以支如賜烏隱
心未際叱肹逐內良齊
阿耶栢史叱枝次高支好
雪是毛冬乃乎尸花判也
The translation that I originally found appealing:
The moon that pushes her way
Through the thickets of clouds,
Is she not pursuing
The white clouds?
Knight Kip'a once stood by the water,
Reflecting his face in the Iro.
Henceforth I shall seek and gather
The depth of his mind among pebbles.
Knight, you are the towering pine
That scorns frost, ignores snow.
– Trans by Peter H. Lee
[daily log: walking, 5km]