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#339
	我を頼めて來ぬ男、角三つ生ひたる鬼になれ。 さて人に疎まれよ。霜雪霰ふる水田の鳥となれ。 さて足冷たかれ。池の萍( うき  くさ )となりねかし。 と搖りかうれ搖られ歩(あり)け。	May he that bade me trust him, but did not come, Turn into a demon with three horns on his head, That all men fly from him! May he become a bird of the waterfields Where frost, snow, and hail fall, That his feet may be frozen to ice! Oh may he become a weed afloat on the pond! May he trembling of the hare, with the trembling of the doe!
#342
	美女うちみれば、一本葛( ひともと かづら )ともなりなばやとぞ 思ふ。本より末まで縒(よ)らればや。切るとも刻むと も、離れ難きは我が宿世( すく せ )。	When I look at my lovely lady, "Oh that I might become a clinging vine," I yearn, "That from toe to tip I might be twined about her." Then though they should crave -- Inseparable our lots!
#459
	我が戀は、一昨日( をと  とひ )みえず昨日こず、 今日おとずれなくは、明日の徒然( つれ  づれ )如何にせん。	As for my love -- Yesterday he came not, nor the day before was seen. If to-day there is no news With to-morrow's idle hours Oh what shall I do?
#468
	山伏の腰に着けたる法螺貝の 丁(ちょう)と落ち ていと割れ、 碎けてものを思ふ頃かな。	The conch-shell fastened at the pilgrim's thigh, The pilgrim mountain-faring -- With a chô it has fallen, With a tei it has cracked: Even so my heart is shattered By this torment of love.
#359
	遊びをせんとや生まれけむ、 戯れせんとや生まれけん。 遊ぶ子供の聲きけば、 わが身さへこそゆるがるれ。	For sport and play I think that we are born; For jesting and laughter I doubt not we are born. For when I hear The voice of children at their play, My limbs, even my Stiff limbs, are stirred.
#408
	舞へ舞へ蝸牛。舞はぬものならば、 馬の子や牛の子に蹴させてん、 踏みわらせてん。 まことに美しく舞うたらば、 華の園まで遊ばせん。	Dance, dance, Mr. Snail! If you won't I shall leave you For the little horse, For the little ox To tread under his hoof, To trample to bits. But if quite prettily You dance your dance, To a garden of flowers I will carry you to play. [There is a modern Tokyo children's song which begins Mai, mai tsuburo! But like most modern snail-songs it ends with and appeal to the animal to put out its horns.]

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