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The Muse among the Motors 1900 to 1930 |
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| TITLE | FIRST LINE | AFTER | NOTES |
| "Sepulchral" | 'Swifter than aught 'neath the sun the car of Simonides moved him' | The Greek Anthologies |  |
| "Arterial" | 'Frost upon small rain—the ebony-lacquered avenue' | Early Chinese | |
| "Carmen Circulare" | 'Dellius, that car which night and day' | Q H Flaccus (Horace) | |
| "The Advertisement" | 'Whether to wend through straight streets strictly' | The Earlier English | |
| "The Justice's Tale" | 'With them there rode a lustie Engineere' | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| "The Consolation of Memory" | 'Blessed was our firstv age and morning time.' | Boethius by Chaucer | |
| "The Four Points" | 'Ere stopping or turning, to put forth a hand' | Thomas Tusser | |
| "To a Lady Persuading Her to a Car" | 'Love's fiery chariot, Delia, take' | Ben Jonson | |
| "The Progress of the Spark" | 'This spark, now set, retarded yet forbears' | John Donne | |
| "The Braggart" | 'Petrolio, vaunting his Mercedes' power' | Mat. Prior | |
| "When the Journey was Intended to the City" | 'When that with eat and drink they had fulfilled' | John Milton | |
| "To Motorists" | 'Since ye distemper and defile' | Robert Herrick | |
| "The Tour" | 'Thirteen as twelve my Murray always took—' | Lord Byron | |
| "The Idiot Boy" | 'He wandered down the mountain grade' | Wordsworth | |
| "The Landau" | 'There was a landau deep and wide' | Praed | |
| "Contradictions" | 'The drowsy carrier sways' | Longfellow | |
| "Fastness" | 'This is the end whereto men toiled' | Tennyson | |
| "The Beginner" | 'Lo what is that I make—sudden supreme unrehearsed—' | Robert Browning | |
| "Lady Geraldine's Hardship" | 'I turned—Heaven knows we women turn too much' | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
| "The Bother" | 'Hastily Adam our driver swallowed a curse in the darkness—' | Clough | |
| "The Dying Chauffeur" | 'Wheel me gently to the garage, since my car and I musr part—' | Adam Lindsay Gordon | |
| "The Inventor" | 'Time and Space decreed his lot' | R W Emerson | |
| "The Ballad of the Car" | "Now this is the price of a stirrup-cup," | Wardour Street Border Ballad | |
| "A Child's Garden" | 'Now there is nothing wrong with me' | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| "The Moral" | 'You mustn't groom an Arab with a file' | Author Unknown | |
| "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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