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·《折杨柳》
朝朝送别泣花钿，折尽春风杨柳烟。
愿得西山无树木，免教人作泪悬悬。
Saying Goodbye
Yu Xuanji
Seeing you off day after day,
my tears roll down like florets;
I’ve used up all my farewells
in the misty haze
as the willows sway
in the spring breeze.
I wish I’d find a paradise
where people never part,
so they will never have to cry
these tears that drain the heart.
（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）
