Listen to this article鱼玄机，女，晚唐诗人，长安（今陕西西安）人。初名鱼幼微，字蕙兰。咸通（唐懿宗年号，860—874）中为补阙李亿妾，以李妻不能容，进长安咸宜观出家为女道士。与文学家温庭筠为忘年交，唱和甚多。后被京兆尹温璋以打死婢女之罪名处死。鱼玄机性聪慧，有才思，好读书，尤工诗。与李冶、薛涛、刘采春并称唐代四大女诗人。其诗作现存五十首，收于《全唐诗》。有《鱼玄机集》一卷。其事迹见《唐才子传》等书。
鱼玄机·《和人次韵》
喧喧朱紫杂人寰，独自清吟日色间。
何事玉郎搜藻思，忽将琼韵扣柴关。
白花发咏惭称谢，僻巷深居谬学颜。
不用多情欲相见，松萝高处是前山。
Following Up Another’s Verse
Yu Xuanji
How clamorous the crowds around
the rich and the influential;
by myself, I sing alone
in the light of the moon.
What motivates the man to come
with poetry in mind?
Here he shows up at my door
with his elegant rhymes.
I chant among the jasmines
and hide in poverty:
above the pines and mountains yet;
don’t seek me ardently.
（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）
