Liu Hsün’s wife

Liu Hsün’s wife lived in the third century AD. After she had been married to General Liu Hsün for a long while he sent her back to her home, because he had fallen in love with a girl of the Ssu-ma family, and she is credited with the poem on the curtain of the wedding bed.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s version in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.