Listen to this article薛涛（约768～832年），唐代女诗人，字洪度。长安（今陕西西安）人。因父亲薛郧做官而来到蜀地，父亲死后薛涛居于成都。居成都时，成都的最高地方军政长官剑南西川节度使前后更换十一届，大多与薛涛有诗文往来。
薛涛·《蝉》
露涤音清远，风吹故叶齐。
声声似相接，各在一枝栖。
Cicadas
Xue Tao
Dew drops bathe their clear, distant tones
When wind blows together a few leaves.
Sound after sound seems closely joined,
Though each lives on a different branch.
（Anthony C. Yu 译）
Cicadas
Xue Tao
The clear, pure sounds of dripping dew
carry far away;
withered leaves blown by the wind
pile up day by day.
The chirping of each insect
seems to join with the rest,
even if every one of them
has a separate nest.
（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）
