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  • 10:50, 4 October 2024The Watershed (hist | edit) ‎[1,747 bytes]Julia.flattich (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Auden, Wystan Hugh" year_of_publication="1927" additional_information="" genre="Poetry" journal="W.H. Auden" publisher="Faber and Faber" page_range="3" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="road, forest, road condition, engine, personification, risk, safety, death, winter, storm"> <poem> Who stands, the crux left of the watershed, On the wet road between the chafing grass Below him sees di...")
  • 17:00, 2 October 2024Jones, Joshua Henry (hist | edit) ‎[145 bytes]Julia.flattich (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = American | life span = ?-1955 }}")
  • 16:56, 2 October 2024The Roadway (hist | edit) ‎[1,343 bytes]Julia.flattich (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Jones, Joshua Henry" year_of_publication="1921" additional_information="" genre="Poetry" journal="Poems of the Four Seas" publisher="Books for Libraries Press" page_range="3" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="road, road condition, metaphor"> <poem> There are hill roads and dale roads, :And roads that bind and twist; Some wide roads and cramped roads :Which many souls have missed. There...")
  • 14:57, 30 September 2024General Disclaimer (hist | edit) ‎[1,541 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Die Universität Konstanz ist eine Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts. Sie wird vertreten durch die Rektorin Prof. Dr. Katharina Holzinger. =<b>Externe Links</b>= Die Universität Konstanz ist als Inhaltsanbieter für die eigenen Inhalte, die sie zur Nutzung bereit hält, nach den allgemeinen Gesetzen verantwortlich. Von diesen eigenen Inhalten sind Querverweise (externe Links) auf die von anderen Anbietern bereit gehaltenen Inhalte zu unterscheiden. Diese fremden I...")
  • 14:55, 30 September 2024Privacy Policy (hist | edit) ‎[8,277 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ =<b>I. Name und Anschrift der Datenschutzbeauftragten</b>= Die Datenschutzbeauftragte des Verantwortlichen ist: E-Mail: [mailto:datenschutzbeauftragter@uni-konstanz.de datenschutzbeauftragter@uni-konstanz.de] Website: [https://www.uni-konstanz.de/datenschutz/ "Datenschutzbeauftragte"] =<b>II. Name und Anschrift des Verantwortlichen</b>= Die Verantwortliche im Sinne der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung und anderer nationaler Datenschutzgesetze der Mitgliedsstaate...")
  • 10:45, 26 September 2024Trinkle, Florence M. (hist | edit) ‎[125 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = }}")
  • 10:43, 26 September 2024Coast to Coast in a Brush Runabout (hist | edit) ‎[100,369 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Trinkle, Florence M." year_of_publication="1952" additional_information="We digitalized Trinkle's piece from a 2015 collection." genre="Non-Fiction" journal="Motoring West: Automobile Pioneers" page_range="298-339" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="driving, navigation, affect"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> PIKES PEAK OR BUST . . . IN A BRUSH </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="car, personification"> <p...")
  • 10:34, 26 September 2024Shanks, Charles B. (hist | edit) ‎[123 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = }}")
  • 10:33, 26 September 2024Automobiling in the West (hist | edit) ‎[22,490 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Shanks, Charles B." year_of_publication="1901" additional_information="We digitalized Shank's piece from a 2015 anthology." genre="Non-Fiction" journal="Scientific American" page_range="81-90" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="infrastructure, road condition, risk, driving skill"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="car, ocean, driver, road, infrastructure"> <poem> COVERING THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT FROM THE Pacific coast to...")
  • 10:30, 26 September 2024Lewis, Sinclair (hist | edit) ‎[141 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1885-1951 }}")
  • 10:19, 26 September 2024Free Air (hist | edit) ‎[11,521 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Lewis, Sinclar" year_of_publication="1919" additional_information="Currently, this page contains the first chapter of Lewis's Free Air. We digitalized this chapter from a 2008 reprint." genre="Fiction" journal="Free Air" page_range="3-10" /> <annotations> =Chapter I= <paragraph keywords="driving, risk, road condition, driving skill"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> MISS BOLTWOOD OF BROOKLYN IS LOST IN THE MUD </poem>...")
  • 20:20, 24 September 2024Delany, Philip (hist | edit) ‎[115 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
  • 20:17, 24 September 2024Frontiering in an Automobile (hist | edit) ‎[8,860 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Delany, Philip" year_of_publication="1903" genre="Non-Fiction" journal="Outing" page_range="131-136" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="pioneer"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="affect, car, pleasure, technology"> <poem> ROMANCE is fast being crowded out of the life of the pioneer; once he depended upon his own sturdy legs, or those of his broncho or burronow he may, if he like, ride in an automobile, the latest pathfinder of...")
  • 12:46, 17 July 2024Who Lies? (hist | edit) ‎[2,028 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="24" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Somebody said it can't be done, Salaries to all and commissions none. We smiled till tears were in our eyes, For can't is a word we do despise. We have done the thing that couldn't be done. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Someb...")
  • 15:21, 16 July 2024XXII (hist | edit) ‎[5,345 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Auden, Wystan Hugh" additional_information="" year_of_publication="1930" genre="Poetry" publisher="Faber and Faber" journal="W. H. Auden Poems" page_range="65-68" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="nostalgia, road"> <poem> Get there if you can and see the land you once were proud to own Though the roads have almost vanished and the expresses never run: </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="infrastructure, bridge, truck"> <poem> Smo...")
  • 10:33, 15 July 2024Birney, Earle (hist | edit) ‎[132 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = Canadian | life span = 1904-1995 }}")
  • 13:28, 11 July 2024A Family Jar (hist | edit) ‎[1,847 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal=" AutoLine o'Type" page_range="60-61" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> We've always tried in every way To do our level best. We're guided by our better half In everything but rest. She says our light and humor lines Is not the stuff that mingles, If we would all men have them read, We must cut out the j...")
  • 13:13, 11 July 2024Our Support (hist | edit) ‎[2,044 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal=" AutoLine o'Type" page_range="75" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="efficiency"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Fortune comes through diligence and skill, There is always a way where there is a will, Industry of hand as well as of brain, Makes everything easy that’s worthy of gain. </poem> </par...")
  • 09:44, 11 July 2024Stoner, Dayton (hist | edit) ‎[132 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = 1883-1944 }}")
  • 09:42, 11 July 2024The Toll of the Automobile (hist | edit) ‎[6,364 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Stoner, Dayton" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Non-Fiction" journal="Science" page_range="56-57" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="animal, death, risk"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="accident, car, death, driving, highway, infrastructure, risk, road, speed"> <poem> We hear and read a good deal of the enormous annual toll of human life due to the mania for speed so generally prevalent among automobile drivers. On this ac...")
  • 13:36, 9 July 2024Wyatt, Edith (hist | edit) ‎[134 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = 1873-1958 }}")
  • 13:36, 9 July 2024On the Great Plateau (hist | edit) ‎[2,838 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Wyatt, Edith" additional_information="" year_of_publication="1921" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Macmillan Company" journal="New Voices" page_range="343-344" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> In the Santa Clara Valley, far away and far away, Cool-breathed waters dip and dally, linger towards another day— Far and far away—far away. Slow their floating step, but tireless, terraced down the great Plateau. Towards our w...")
  • 13:33, 9 July 2024Wilson Baker, Karle (hist | edit) ‎[143 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1878-1960 }}")
  • 13:32, 9 July 2024The Small Town Celebrates (hist | edit) ‎[3,389 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Wilson Baker, Karle" additional_information="This version of the poem was published as part of a 1921 collection but was likely published before 1920." year_of_publication="1921" genre="Poetry" publisher="Henry Holt and Company" journal="Modern Verse" page_range="111-113" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> We tumbled out into the starry dark Under the cold stars; still the sirens shrieked, As we reached the square, two rockets h...")
  • 13:32, 9 July 2024Weeks, Carrie Foote (hist | edit) ‎[117 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
  • 13:31, 9 July 2024The ABC of the Automobile (hist | edit) ‎[4,399 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Weeks, Carrie Foote" additional_information="" year_of_publication="1906" genre="Poetry" journal="The Outing Magazine" page_range="687" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="car"> <poem> A at the start was an Automobile. It answers to motor car, just as you feel. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="car part"> <poem> B is the Brake that gives you control. If the Bubble Breaks you, you're in a Big hole. </poem> </paragraph> <paragr...")
  • 13:29, 9 July 2024Teasdale, Sara (hist | edit) ‎[143 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1884-1933 }}")
  • 13:29, 9 July 2024May Day (hist | edit) ‎[868 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Teasdale, Sara" year_of_publication="1915" genre="Poetry" publisher="MacMillan" journal="Rivers to the Sea" page_range="23" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="car, traffic"> <poem> The shining line of motors, The swaying motor-bus, The prancing dancing horses Are passing by for us. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> The sunlight on the steeple, The toys we stop to see, The smiling passing people Are all for you and me. </...")
  • 13:28, 9 July 2024Shackelford, Otis M. (hist | edit) ‎[121 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = 1871-? }}")
  • 13:27, 9 July 2024On the Road (hist | edit) ‎[934 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Shackelford, Otis M." additional_information="" year_of_publication="1911" genre="Poetry" publisher="" journal="" page_range="" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="road, race, animal"> <poem> They would steal old master's horses, Fat and sleek and full of spirit; Steal them while that he was sleeping, Soundly sleeping in his mansion; From the stable would they steal them, Ride them upward through the valley To the place of fun and frolic,...")
  • 13:25, 9 July 2024Johnson, Helene (hist | edit) ‎[150 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = American | life span = 1906-1995 }}")
  • 13:24, 9 July 2024The Road (hist | edit) ‎[735 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Johnson, Helene" year_of_publication="1926" genre="Poetry" journal="Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life" page_range="225" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="road, wind, tree, topography"> <poem> Ah, little road all whirry in the breeze, A leaping clay hill lost among the trees, The bleeding note of rapture streaming thrush Caught in a drowsy hush And stretched out in a single singing line of dusky song. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keyw...")
  • 13:23, 9 July 2024Jamison, Roscoe C. (hist | edit) ‎[145 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = American | life span = 1888-? }}")
  • 13:22, 9 July 2024The Road of Human Life (hist | edit) ‎[1,300 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Jamison, Roscoe C." year_of_publication="1918" genre="Poetry" publisher="Press of the Gray Printing Company" journal="Negro Soldiers (“These Truly are the Brave”) and other poems by Roscoe C. Jamison" page_range="" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="metaphor, metaphysics"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="road"> <poem> Along the Road of Human Life, So very near, on either side, With winds and storms and billows rife, The...")
  • 12:00, 9 July 2024Aldington, Richard (hist | edit) ‎[141 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1892-1962 }}")
  • 11:59, 9 July 2024The Poplar (hist | edit) ‎[1,690 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Aldington, Richard" year_of_publication="1915" genre="Poetry" publisher="Houghton Mifflin Company" journal="Some Imagist Poets" page_range="10-11" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="tree"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="river, roadside, temperature"> <poem> Why do you always stand there shivering Between the white stream and the road? </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="dust, bicycle, car, road, scenery"> <poem> Th...")
  • 11:25, 9 July 2024Lavell, Edith (hist | edit) ‎[131 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = 1892-? }}")
  • 11:24, 9 July 2024The Girl Scouts' Motor Trip (hist | edit) ‎[42,757 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Lavell, Edith" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Fiction" publisher="A. L. Burt Company" journal="The Girl Scouts‘ Motor Trip" page_range="Chapters 1-3" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Marjorie Wilkinson and Lily Andrews sauntered down the hall of the dormitory towards their rooms, humming tunes and dragging their hockey sticks along the floor behind them. They were enjoying a particularly jubilant mood, for their team had ju...")
  • 10:40, 8 July 2024Moore, Marianne (hist | edit) ‎[134 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = 1887-1972 }}")
  • 10:39, 8 July 2024People's Surroundings (hist | edit) ‎[4,713 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Moore, Marianne" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="" journal="Observations" page_range="" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> They answer one’s questions, a deal table compact with the wall; in this dried bone of arrangement one’s “natural promptness” is compressed, not crowded out; one’s style is not lost in such simplicity. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> The palace furniture,...")
  • 15:27, 1 July 2024Hughes, Langston (hist | edit) ‎[148 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = American | life span = 1901-1967 }}")
  • 15:26, 1 July 2024Baby (hist | edit) ‎[462 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Hughes, Langston" additional_information="The poem was likely published earlier than 1927." year_of_publication="1927" genre="Poetry" publisher="Alfred A. Knopf Inc." journal="Langston Hughes: Poems" page_range="68" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="trucks, traffic, risk, road"> <poem> Albert! Hey, Albert! Don't you play in dat road. You see dem trucks A-goin' by. One run ovah you An' you die. Albert, don't you play in dat road. <...")
  • 15:25, 1 July 2024Florida Road Workers (hist | edit) ‎[1,063 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Hughes, Langston" additional_information="" year_of_publication="1927" genre="Poetry" publisher="Alfred A. Knopf Inc." journal="Langston Hughes: Poems" page_range="84" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="infrastructure, class"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Hey, Buddy! Look at me! </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="construction, road, speed, metaphor"> <poem> I'm makin' a road For the cars to fly by...")
  • 15:06, 1 July 2024The Road to Glory (hist | edit) ‎[2,150 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery W." year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="38" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="religion"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> We know a good old Missouri town, Where "niggers" a-plenty live all around. On a little hill down near the mill, The "nigger" church is standing still. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""...")
  • 15:05, 1 July 2024The Old Homestead (hist | edit) ‎[2,080 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="25" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="nostalgia"> <poem> </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Nothing can make our heart so warm, As visions of where we first were born, As the memory of that first Christmas tree, Where the old homestead used to be. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph...")
  • 15:05, 1 July 2024The Mountains (hist | edit) ‎[1,779 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="17" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="mountain"> <poem> When we view the mountains all around, From their vast stillness not a sound, They seem just like some silent friend On whom we safely can depend. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="sky, mountain, religion, sublime"> <poem> They ris...")
  • 15:03, 1 July 2024Kisses by the Roadside (hist | edit) ‎[1,959 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="18" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords="urban, car, night"> <poem> 'Twas out on Garey north of town, They had their auto curtains down, Spooning there without a light, At ten o'clock the other night. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="car part, visibility, pleasure"> <poem> We saw them by...")
  • 15:01, 1 July 2024Days of Opportunity (hist | edit) ‎[1,962 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery W." year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="40" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> If you are inclined to lament and say, There are no opportunities found today, With the rest of the world you're out of step, Your body and mind are short on pep. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Opportunities once flew thick and fast,...")
  • 15:00, 1 July 2024Where Happiness Lies (hist | edit) ‎[2,065 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="181-182" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Married life is a funny thing, We take the fling with a wedding ring. With some its one continuous fight, They kick and scratch and sometimes bite. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> God made all things to live by pair, The b...")
  • 15:00, 1 July 2024The Value of Thrift (hist | edit) ‎[1,869 bytes]Jannis.buschky (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o'Type" page_range="104" /> <annotations> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Every man from day to day Should save a portion of his pay. If what you save is only small, Still it’s more than none at all. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> There’s not a man who doesn’t know, To pay is better as you go...")
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