Yu Xuanji 魚玄機
poet · Daoist priestess · Tang China · 844?–868?
A woman poet of the Tang. She lived as a priestess in a Daoist convent and left some fifty poems.
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860s · On seeing the names of the newly passed candidates. Women could not sit the examinations
Cloud peaks fill my eyes in the clear spring weather. One by one the silver strokes come alive under the brush. I hate these silk robes that hide my lines of verse. I lift my head and envy, uselessly, the names on the list.
雲峰滿目放春晴，歷歷銀鉤指下生。
自恨羅衣掩詩句，舉頭空羨榜中名。"Visiting the South Tower of Chongzhen Temple and Seeing Where the New Graduates Wrote Their Names," in the Complete Tang Poems
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