Listen to this article鱼玄机，唐代女诗人。初名鱼幼微，字蕙兰。长安（今陕西西安）人，生卒年不详。咸通（唐懿宗年号，公元860—874年）中，为补阙李亿为妾，为李妻不能容，出家于长安咸宜观为女道士，改名鱼玄机。后因杀侍婢绿翘，为京兆尹温璋处死。鱼玄机性聪慧，好读书，有才思，尤工诗歌，与李郢、温庭筠等有诗篇往来。其诗作见于《全唐诗》，现存有五十余首，有《鱼玄机集》一卷。
《和新及第悼亡诗二首·其一》 鱼玄机
仙籍人间不久留，片时已过十经秋。
鸳鸯帐下香犹暖，鹦鹉笼中语未休。
朝露缀花如脸恨，晚风敧柳似眉愁。
彩云一去无消息，潘岳多情欲白头。
Replying to a Poem by a New Graduate Lamenting the Loss of His Wife
Yu Hsuan-chi
Immortals don’t stay long in the world of men;
You’ve passed another fall, already ten.
Pairs of ducks on a curtain, beneath, her fragrance lingers;
In the parrot’s cage her words are not yet stilled.
Morning dew pastes the flowers in a sad face;
Evening wind bends the willows like dropping eyebrows.
Colored clouds come once, then go away;
P’an Yueh, wistful, is going gray.
