Li Qingzhao

"簾捲西風，人比黃花瘦。"

"见有人来，袜铲金钗溜，和羞走。倚门回首，却把青梅嗅。"

"Who sits alone by the bright window? My shadow and I, only we two. But the lamp burns out, there is darkness. Even my shadow forsakes me. Alas, alas! I am forlorn!"

"Li Yi-an was the greatest poetess of China. Once her husband asked one of his friends to pick out the best lines that he liked from a number of his poems, having, however, concealed in them some pieces by his wife. The friend picked out, to his dismay, only lines from her pen."