| “Sepulchral” |
‘Swifter than aught ‘neath the sun the car of Simonides moved him’ |
The Greek Anthologies |
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| “Arterial” |
‘Frost upon small rain—the ebony-lacquered avenue’ |
Early Chinese |
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| “Carmen Circulare” |
‘Dellius, that car which night and day’ |
Q H Flaccus (Horace) |
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| “The Advertisement” |
‘Whether to wend through straight streets strictly’ |
The Earlier English |
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| “The Justice’s Tale” |
‘With them there rode a lustie Engineere’ |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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| “The Consolation of Memory” |
‘Blessed was our first age and morning time.’ |
Boethius by Chaucer |
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| “The Four Points” |
‘Ere stopping or turning, to put forth a hand’ |
Thomas Tusser |
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| “To a Lady Persuading Her to a Car” |
‘Love’s fiery chariot, Delia, take’ |
Ben Jonson |
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| “The Progress of the Spark” |
‘This spark, now set, retarded yet forbears’ |
John Donne |
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| “The Braggart” |
‘Petrolio, vaunting his Mercedes’ power’ |
Mat. Prior |
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| “When the Journey was Intended to the City” |
‘When that with eat and drink they had fulfilled’ |
John Milton |
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| “To Motorists” |
‘Since ye distemper and defile’ |
Robert Herrick |
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| “The Tour” |
‘Thirteen as twelve my Murray always took—’ |
Lord Byron |
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| “The Idiot Boy“ |
‘He wandered down the mountain grade’ |
Wordsworth |
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| “The Landau” |
‘There was a landau deep and wide’ |
Praed |
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| “Contradictions” |
‘The drowsy carrier sways’ |
Longfellow |
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| “Fastness” |
‘This is the end whereto men toiled’ |
Tennyson |
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| “The Beginner” |
‘Lo what is that I make—sudden supreme unrehearsed—’ |
Robert Browning |
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| “Lady Geraldine’s Hardship” |
‘I turned—Heaven knows we women turn too much’ |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| “The Bother” |
‘Hastily Adam our driver swallowed a curse in the darkness—’ |
Clough |
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| “The Dying Chauffeur” |
‘Wheel me gently to the garage, since my car and I must part—’ |
Adam Lindsay Gordon |
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| “The Inventor” |
‘Time and Space decreed his lot’ |
R W Emerson |
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| “The Ballad of the Car” |
“Now this is the price of a stirrup-cup,” |
Wardour Street Border Ballad |
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| “A Child’s Garden” |
‘Now there is nothing wrong with me’ |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| “The Moral” |
‘You mustn’t groom an Arab with a file’ |
Author unknown |
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| “The Marrèd Drives of Windsor” |
‘Here’s all at an end between us, or I’ll never taste sack again’. |
Shakespeare with an introduction by Samuel Johnson |
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