Listen to this article《酬李郢夏日钓鱼回见示》是唐代诗人鱼玄机的作品之一。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·《酬李郢夏日钓鱼回见示》
住处虽同巷，经年不一过。
清词劝旧女，香桂折新柯。
道性欺冰雪，禅心笑绮罗。
迹登霄汉上，无路接烟波。
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Yu Xuanji
Though we live on the same street,
you haven’t passed by all year.
Fine poetry pleased your former lady,
distinguished laurels, your new degree.
A Taoist nature cares not at all
for the cold of ice and snow,
a Buddhist heart laughs aloud
at ostentatious silk;
since you rose to rank at court,
we have no chance to meet—
having climbed the lofty sky,
no more is there a way to receive
the misty waves below.
（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）
