Fair Danubie is praised for being wide;
Nilus commended for the sevenfold head;
Euphrates for the swiftness of the tide,
And for the garden whence his course is led;
The banks of Rhine with vines are overspread:
Take Loire and Po, yet all may not compare
With English Thamesis for buildings rare.

The faint-flushed buds awake within the cup
Of myriad folded roses yet to be;
Ere Life can drink its utmost sweetness up,
Love flutters, wakens, O how sweet to see!

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty Leg,
Which is as white and hair-less as an egge.

Fain I would, but oh, I dare not
Speak my thoughts at full to praise her:
" Speak the best," cries Love, " and spare not;
Thy speech can no higher raise her:
Thy speech than thy thought is lower,
Yet thy thoughts doth not half know her."

Eye-flattering fortune, look thou never so fair,
Or never so pleasantly begin to smile
As though thou wouldst my ruin all repair;
During my life thou shalt me not beguile.
Trust shall I God, to enter in a while
His haven of heaven, sure and uniform;
Ever after thy calm, look I for a storm.

Everybody says
I look just like my mother.
Everybody says
I'm the image of Aunt Bee.
Everybody says
My nose is like my father's,
But I want to look like me .

The empty sky
of my heart
enshrouded in spring mist
rises to thoughts of
leaving the world behind.

Every day is a fresh beginning,
Listen my soul to the glad refrain.
And, spite of old sorrows
And older sinning,
Troubles forecasted
And possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.

Every day I receive the Imperial favor
as I attend upon His carriage.
But no matter what I do, I never forget the family!
I send this to you now, Ch'ao-erh, to say,
be diligent in your studies of the Documents and Poems:
don't upset your dad!

Ever since Uncle John Henry been dead
All of the women are wearin' red.
Dis yere hammer, nine-pound hammer,
Kill mah partner, kill John Henry,
Kill him dead.