Rhymes on the Road
Extracted From the Journal of a Travelling Member of the Poco-Curante Society
1819.
The greater part of the following Rhymes were written or composed in an old calêche for the purpose of beguiling the ennui of solitary travelling; and as verses made by a gentleman in his sleep, have been lately called “a psychological curiosity,” it is to be hoped that verses, composed by a gentleman to keep himself awake, may be honored with some appellation equally Greek.