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·《送别二首》

一

秦楼几夜惬心期，不料仙郎有别离。

睡觉莫言云去处，残灯一盏野蛾飞。

二

水柔逐器知难定，云出无心肯再归。

惆怅春风楚江暮，鸳鸯一只失群飞。

Two Verses on Parting

Yu Xuanji

1.

These nights in our chamber of

love fulfilled your expectations;

hardly did I count

on you, my lover, parting.

Dozing off, I cannot tell

where the clouds have gone;

the moths of the wilds are flitting

‘round the guttering lamp.

2.

Water adapts unresisting

to the shape of the vessel it’s in;

obviously a definite form

cannot be fixed for good.

Once the clouds have gone,

they have no mind to return.

Wistful in the springtime breeze

over the river of an eve,

a mandarin duck without its flock

flies away alone.

（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）

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