Listen to this article薛涛（约768～832年），是一个带有传奇色彩的唐代女诗人，字洪度。长安（今陕西西安）人。16岁入乐籍，与韦皋，元稹有过恋情，恋爱期间，薛涛自己制作桃红色小笺用来写诗，后人仿制，称“薛涛笺”。脱乐籍后终身未嫁。成都望江楼公园有薛涛墓” 。薛涛与刘采春，鱼玄机，李冶，并称唐朝四大女诗人。卓文君、薛涛、花蕊夫人、黄娥并称蜀中四大才女。流传至今诗作有90余首。
薛涛·《赠远二首》
一
芙蓉新落蜀山秋，锦字开缄到是愁。
闺阁不知戎马事，月高还上望夫楼。
二
扰弱新蒲叶又齐，春深花落塞前溪。
知君未转秦关骑，月照千门掩袖啼。
Two Poems for Someone Faraway
Xue Tao
I
Hibiscus newly fallen on the hills of Shu,
And grief arrives when the envelope’s unsealed.
A girl who does not know the affairs of war
Still climbs at full moon the mate-watching tower.
II
New rushes, though weak, show a steady green
When late-spring blossoms drop in frontier creeks.
Your steed, I know, has yet to round Qin forts:
My sleeve’s tear-soaked, the moon lights a thousand gates.
