Travel Quiz Answers

1. But at my back I always hear / Time’s winged [ ] hurrying near.
To His Coy Mistress/Andrew Marvell - chariot

2. And all I ask is a tall [ ] and a star to steer her by
Sea Fever/John Masefield - ship

3. Bloody men are like bloody [ ]
Bloody Men/Wendy Cope - buses

4. A sense of falling, like an arrow shower / sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.
The Whitsun Weddings/Philip Larkin - train

5. The carlin caught her by the rump, / And left poor Maggie scarce a stump
Tam O Shanter/Robert Burns - horse

6. I know that I shall meet my fate / Somewhere among the clouds above
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death/Yeats - aeroplane

7. Letters of thanks, letters from banks, / Letters of joy from girl and boy
Night Mail/Auden - train

8. Closed like confessionals, they thread / Loud noons of cities, giving back / None of the glances they absorb.
Ambulances/Larkin - ambulances

9. Quick asa crash / we all changed partners, / and soon the [ ] was aquiver / with white, mothball bodies doing naughty things.
At Lunchtime/Roger McGough - bus

10. …then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth / in the distant Latin chanting of a [ ].
Prayer/Carol Ann Duffy - train

11. And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening/Robert Frost - horse

12. Dearest, note how these two are alike: / This harpsichord pavane by Purcell / And the racer’s twelve-speed [ ].
Machines/Michael Donaghy - bike

13. …by craning backwards, / the moose can be seen / on the moonlit macadam; / then there’s a dim / smell of moose, an acrid / smell of gasoline.
The Moose/ Elizabeth Bishop - bus

14. For here the lover and killer are mingled / who had one body and one heart. / And death who had the soldier singled / has done the lover mortal hurt.
Vergissmeinicht/Keith Douglas - tank

15. Let [ ] circle moaning overhead / scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead
Funeral Blues or Stop The Clocks/Auden - aeroplanes

16. …they are looking down through the glass-bottom [ ] of heaven / as they row themselves slowly through eternity
The Dead/Billy Collins - boat

17. ‘A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the year / For a journey, and such a long journey…’
Journey of the Magi/TS Eliot - camels

18. If you can talk with the crowds and keep your virtue, or [ ] with kings – nor lose the common touch…
If/Kipling - walk 

19. Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame / And round the prow they read her name…
The Lady of Shalott/Tennyson - rowing boat

20. But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your [ ];
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven/Yeats - feet

21. A people will sometimes [ ] back from war; / elect an honest man; decide they care
Sometimes/Sheenagh Pugh - step

22. It’s my lunch hour, so I go / for a walk among the hum-colored / [ ]
A Step Away From Them/Frank O'Hara - cabs

23. You carry your helmet like a severed head. / We think of you as already dead.
Zero Gravity/Gwyneth Lewis - space shuttle

24. This City now doth like a garment wear / The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, / [ ], towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie / open unto the fields, and to the sky;
Composed upon Westminster Bridge/Wordsworth - ships

25. In the room the women [ ] / Talking of Michelangelo.
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock/TS Eliot - come and go

26. Alas! I am very sorry to say / That ninety lives have been taken away / On the last Sabbath day of 1879 / Which will be remembered for a very long time.
The Tay Bridge Disaster/William McGonagall - train

27. It’s no go to the merrygoround, it’s no go to the rickshaw, / all we want is a [ ] and a ticket for the peepshow.
Bagpipe Music/Louis MacNeice - limousine

28. As I lay asleep in Italy / There came a voice from over the sea / And with great power it forth led me / To [ ] in the visions of Poesy.
The Mask of Anarchy/Shelley - walk

29. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor
The Highwayman/Alfred Noyes - horse

30. Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way / To the siding-shed, / And lined the [ ] with faces grimly gay.
The Send-Off/Wilfred Owen - train

31. They [ ] from me, that sometime did me seek / with naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
They Flee From Me/Thomas Wyatt - flee

32. …and the expensive delicate [ ] that must have seen / Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, / Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Musee des Beaux Arts/Auden - ship

33. Where Alph, the sacred river, [ ]
Kubla Khan/Coleridge - ran

34. The invisible worm / That [ ] in the night, / In the howling storm
The Sick Rose/William Blake - flies

35. The [ ] go by in twos and threes - / There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn tonight
Inniskeen Road: July Evening/Patrick Kavanagh - bicycles

36. The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise / Were all at prayers inside the oratory / A [ ] appeared above them in the air
From Lightenings/Seamus Heaney - ship

37. Across the open countryside, / Into the walls of rain I ride. / It beats my cheek, drenches my knees, / But I am being what I please
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Dream of His Death/Thom Gunn - motorcycle

38. How selfhood begins with a [ ] away, / And love is proved in the letting go
Walking Away/C Day Lewis - walking

39. Ah, you should see Cynyddlan on a [ ]. Gone the old look that yoked him to the soil.
Cynyddlan on a Tractor/RS Lewis - tractor

40. Ah, solving that question / Brings the priest and the doctor / In their long coats / [ ] over the fields. 
Days/Larkin - running