“A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.”
Part I, stanza 12.
Peter Bell (1798)
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“The Yellow River flows torrential in my veins.
China is me I am China.”
"Music Percussive", in An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Literature. Taiwan: 1949–1974. Vol. I: Poems and Essays, eds. Pang-yuan Chi et al. (Taipei: National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1977), p. 113

“See how the Yellow River's waters move out of heaven,
Entering the ocean, never to return.”
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Wang Zhi-huan, "On the Heron Tower"
Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)

“There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (1998)