Fu Xuan

Fu Xuan (傅玄; 217–278), courtesy name Xiuyi (休奕), posthumous name Gang (刚), was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician who lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period and later under the Jin dynasty. He was one of the most prolific authors of fu poetry of his time.

• How sad it is to be a woman!
  Nothing on earth is held so cheap.
• His love is distant as the stars in Heaven,
  Yet the sunflower bends toward the sun.
  • "Woman" (tr. Arthur Waley, 1922)

• Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift:
  Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.
  • "A Gentle Wind" (tr. Arthur Waley, 1922)

• Arthur Waler, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), pp. 93–94
• Anne Birrell, New Songs from a Jade Terrace (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982), pp. 73, 238