《妻子哀歌》是一首盎格鲁撒克逊时期的古代英语诗歌。由于其对性爱的特殊关注 ,以及对在流放中的妻子所受心灵与肉体煎熬的细致描述 ,这首诗在早期英国文学中占有一定的地位。然而 ,由于文本的诸多不确定因素 ,加上缺少文本外的佐证资料 ,尽管学者们纷纷对诗中所描述的颇富戏 “Lamentations of his wife” is an ancient English poem of Anglo-Saxon period. Because of its special attention to sex and the meticulous description of the torment of the soul and the body in the exile wife, this poem holds a certain place in early British literature. However, due to the many uncertainties of the text, together with the lack of supporting evidence outside the text, although scholars have described the poem quite a lot of drama