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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MCGINLEY, PHYLLIS Matches Found: 119 Mcginley, Phyllis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. 119 poems available by this author 5:32 First Line: She said, if tomorrow my world were torn in two Last Line: And wood smoke lying like haze on the quiet town, %and dinner waiting, and the sun not yet gone down A BALLAD OF ANTHOLOGISTS Poem Text First Line: An urchin at his father's knee Subject(s): Writing & Writers; Editors ABOUT CHILDREN First Line: By all the published facts in the case Last Line: When the selfsame nimbus is eerily worn %by a nymph, a child, and a unicorn? ADVERSARY First Line: A mother's hardest to forgive Last Line: Ripe on a plate. And while you live %relentlessly she understands you Subject(s): Mothers APPREHENSIVE SURVEY (OF THE POETRY SITUATION ... ) First Line: With sound of fife and trumpet, with roll of pulsing drum Last Line: That it's much more amusing to knock things down Subject(s): Poetry And Poets B'S THE BUS Last Line: It has to stop obligingly %if you but raise your hand BALLAD FOR ONE BORN IN MISSOURI First Line: Rise up, devout america! The blessed hours strike Last Line: But james %truslow %adams %sets sail for liverpool BALLAD OF AMATEUR HOUR First Line: What shall we do with the bold milkman BALLAD OF FINE DAYS Poem Text First Line: All in the summery weather Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War BALLAD OF FINE DAYS First Line: All in the summery weather Last Line: The bombers fly together %through the innocent air Subject(s): World War Ii BALLADE OF LOST OBJECTS Poem Text First Line: Where are the ribbons I tie my hair with? Subject(s): Religion; Youth; Theology BALLADE OF LOST OBJECTS First Line: Where are the ribbons I tie my hair with? Last Line: But where in the world did the children vanish? Subject(s): Religion; Youth C IS FOR THE CIRCUS Last Line: I wouldn't trade a circus %for some crocuses, would you? CAROL WITH VARIATIONS, 1936 First Line: Oh! Little town of bethlehem, how still we see thee lie Last Line: Hear the carol, once again- %peace on earth, good will to men Subject(s): Religion CERTAIN AGE First Line: All of a sudden bicycles are toys Subject(s): Adolescence CITY CHRISTMAS Poem Text First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart Last Line: We hear too late or not too late Subject(s): Christmas; Cities; Nativity, The; Urban Life CITY CHRISTMAS First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart Last Line: And twenty thousand doormen hourly grow %politer and politer and politer Subject(s): Christmas; Cities CLUB WOMAN First Line: She scarce had entered in the gate Subject(s): Religion CONQUERORS First Line: It seems vainglorious and proud Last Line: But ah! How wondrously they slew %with what they had to go on COUNTRY CLUB SUNDAY First Line: It is a beauteous morning, calm and free Last Line: Moans, shuns the light, and gulps tomato juice Subject(s): Clubs (associations) DANIEL AT BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: His paper propped against the electric toaster Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives DEATH AT SUPPERTIME First Line: Between the dark and the daylight Last Line: Comes a season of horror by wireless, %that is know as the children's hour DIDO OF TUNISIA Poem Text First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii ENIGMA IN ALTMAN'S First Line: It is a strange, miraculous thing EVENING MUSICALE Poem Text First Line: Candles, red tulips, ninety cents the bunch. Variant Title(s): Recipe For An Evening Musicale Subject(s): Music & Musicians EVENING MUSICALE First Line: Candles, red tulips, ninety cents the bunch. Last Line: On little rented chairs with gilded backs. Variant Title(s): Recipe For An Evening Musical Subject(s): Music And Musicians F IS THE FIGHTING FIRETRUCK Last Line: When the firetruck flashes by FIRST LESSON Poem Text First Line: The first thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. Subject(s): Men FOURTEENTH BIRTHDAY First Line: The enemy who wears GARLAND OF PRECEPTS First Line: Though a seeker since my birth GIVEAWAY First Line: Saint bridget was %a problem child Last Line: From evidence presented here? %saint bridget? Or her near and dear? HOLY CITY First Line: In palestine, in palestine %the flocks unsheltered sleep Subject(s): Christmas HOSPITAL SONG (COMPOSED WHILE EMERGING FROM THE ETHER) First Line: Hospitals simply enchant me Last Line: But - lean a little closer - I would rather be at home Subject(s): Hospitals IN PRAISE OF DIVERSITY Poem Text First Line: Since the ingenious earth began Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY First Line: Indeed, it will soon be over. I shall be done J'S THE JUMPING JAY-WALKER Poem Text Last Line: And the traffic into jam Subject(s): Pedestrians; Children; Traffic J'S THE JUMPING JAY-WALKER Last Line: And the traffic into jam Subject(s): Cities JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING Poem Text First Line: Fifty, not having expected to arrive here Last Line: But not to sleep. He finds it hard to sleep Subject(s): Aging; Insomnia; Sleeplessness JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING First Line: Fifty, not having expected to arrive here Last Line: Fifty writes letters, dines, yawns, goes up early %but not to sleep. He finds it hard to sleep Subject(s): Aging; Insomnia LADY ALONE First Line: Since he has left her, all her luck has left LADY SELECTING HER CHRISTMAS CARDS Poem Text First Line: Fastidiously, with gloved and careful fingers Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The LADY SELECTING HER CHRISTMAS CARDS First Line: Fastidiously, with gloved and careful fingers Last Line: Twelve-fifty for the box Subject(s): Christmas LAMENT FOR LOST LODGINGS First Line: Yes, do you remember an inn Last Line: On a long veranda, %I'll motor no more, miranda Subject(s): Hotels LANCELOT WITH BICYCLE Poem Text First Line: Her window looks upon the lane Last Line: Three grief, april, and his name Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Infatuation; Love – Age Differences; Fickleness LANCELOT WITH BICYCLE First Line: Her window looks upon the lane Last Line: Grief, april, and his name Subject(s): Love LANDSCAPE WITHOUT FIGURES First Line: The shape of the summer has not changed at all Last Line: Though the shape of the summer has not changed at all Subject(s): World War Ii LATE AUGUST Poem Text First Line: Candles, red tulips, ninety cents the bunch. Last Line: On little rented chairs with gilded backs Subject(s): August LATE AUGUST First Line: Now like an unkempt wife, a blowsy napper Last Line: The voice of macy chiding his commitee Subject(s): August LENDING LIBRARY Poem Text First Line: Between the valentines and birthday greetings Subject(s): Books; Women; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians LITERARY LANDSCAPE WITH DOVE AND POET First Line: The pedant dove, the poet who admires him MARGINAL NOTES First Line: From hollywood, cal., to boston, mass., %atlanta to the sea Last Line: But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes %youalways commit yourself MELANCHOLY REFLECTIONS AFTER A LOST ARGUMENT First Line: I always pay the verbal score Last Line: The art of always striking when %the irony is hot MIDCENTURY LOVE LETTER Poem Text First Line: Stay near me. Speak my name. Oh, do not wander Subject(s): Love MIDCENTURY LOVE LETTER First Line: Stay near me. Speak my name. Oh, do not wander Last Line: In no such winter can survive this MIXTURE AS BEFORE First Line: Summer is icumen in Last Line: And the aromatic night %leans against the blackout curtain Subject(s): World War Ii MR. BROWNING REVISES - 1939 First Line: Oh, to be in england MY SIX TOOTHBRUSHES First Line: Against the pure, reflective tiles NOT BY WAVING BANNERS First Line: Oh, not by waving banners NOTES FOR A SOUTHERN ROAD MAP First Line: Carry me back to old virginny NOVEMBER First Line: Away with vanity of man Last Line: After october to find sweet %her chilly common sense O.K., PARNASSUS First Line: Oh, send up sky rockets by the carton Last Line: Is really an interesting occupation OCCUPATION: HOUSEWIFE Poem Text First Line: Her health is good. She owns to forty-one, Subject(s): Housewives ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Summer, adieu Subject(s): Summer ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER First Line: Summer, adieu OFFICE PARTY Poem Text First Line: This holy night in open forum Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The OFFICE PARTY First Line: This holy night in open forum Last Line: Collapse by the water cooler Subject(s): Christmas OLD WOMAN WITH FOUR SONS First Line: I have had four sons,' said the old woman ORDEAL BY FAMILY First Line: I've been out where the blues begin Last Line: And now that I'm away again, %I miss them very much Subject(s): Family Life ORIGINS OF SPECIES Poem Text First Line: And at his doorsill Subject(s): Santa Claus; Nicholas, Saint P'S THE PROUD POLICEMAN Last Line: And he points the way politely %to the playground or the park PORTENTS First Line: By a cloud, by rings on the moon Last Line: Though there is no safety there %I think. Nor anywhere Subject(s): World War Ii PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH COMIC BOOK Poem Text First Line: Thirteen's no age at all. Thirteen's nothing Subject(s): Adolescence; Teen Agers PORTRAIT OF A GIRL WITH COMIC BOOK First Line: Thirteen's no age at all. Thirteen's nothing Last Line: Nor, quitted once, can it be quite recalled - %not even with pity Subject(s): Adolescence PUBLIC JOURNAL First Line: It is four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem Last Line: And the american royalties, and an inherited income, %to keep the wolf at bay Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PUBLISHER'S PARTY First Line: At tea in cocktail weather Subject(s): Publishing; Women Writers; Publishers PUBLISHER'S PARTY First Line: At tea in cocktail weather Last Line: Away in haste I slither, %feeling I need a breather Subject(s): Publishing; Women - Writers REACTIONARY ESSAY ON APPLIED SCIENCE Poem Text First Line: I cannot love the brothers wright, Subject(s): Science; Scientists REFLECTIONS AT DAWN Poem Text First Line: I wish I owned a dior dress Subject(s): Wishes REFLECTIONS AT DAWN First Line: I wish I owned a dior dress Last Line: I wish I didn't talk so much, %when I am at a party Subject(s): Wishes SAINT FRANCIS BORGIA, OR A REFUTATION FOR HERESY First Line: In the courts of evil SOLDIER ASLEEP. Last Line: Safe may the winds return you to the place %that, howsoever it was, was better than this Subject(s): World War Ii SONG FROM NEW ROCHELLE First Line: Monday's child is fair of face Last Line: On saturday morn, %and saturday's child commutes SONG OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILD Poem Text First Line: Mother, my mouth is dimpled, Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Childhood SPANISH LIONS First Line: Guarding the doors of the hispanic society Last Line: Not even the bas-relief of rosinante, %posed with his knightastride, on the opposite wall Subject(s): Statues SPRING COMES TO THE SUBURBS First Line: Now green the larch; the hedges green Last Line: Of showers and soil and fertilizer SQUEEZE PLAY Poem Text First Line: Jackson pollock had a quaint Last Line: Sibyl always answered Subject(s): Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) SQUEEZE PLAY First Line: Jackson pollock had a quaint Last Line: Sibyl always answered, %'dribble' Subject(s): Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) TEMPTATIONS OF SAINT ANTHONY First Line: Off in the wilderness bare and level Last Line: Quite a relief to anthony Subject(s): Anthony, Saint (250-355); Saints TEXT FOR TODAY First Line: The syllables of grief are small THE ADVERSARY Poem Text First Line: A mother's hardest to forgive Subject(s): Mothers THE ANGRY MAN Poem Text First Line: The other day I chanced to meet Subject(s): Anger THE CONQUERORS Poem Text First Line: It seems vainglorious and proud Subject(s): Mankind; War; Human Race THE GIVEAWAY Poem Text First Line: Saint bridget was Subject(s): Bridget, Saint (1303-1373); Gifts & Giving THE TEMPTATIONS OF SAINT ANTHONY Poem Text First Line: Off in the wilderness bare and level Subject(s): Anthony, Saint (250-355); Saints THE VELVET HAND Poem Text First Line: I call that parent rash and wild Subject(s): Parents; Parenthood THIS SIDE OF CALVIN Poem Text First Line: The reverend dr. Harcourt, folk agree Subject(s): Clergy; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology THIS SIDE OF CALVIN First Line: The reverend dr. Harcourt, folk agree Subject(s): Clergy; Religion TIRADE ON TEA First Line: Though my interest in viands is easy to whet up TIRED BALLAD OF TRAVEL First Line: Say, do the blamy breezes blow on old nantcuket still? Last Line: Ah, draw the shades and let me doze %above a travel folder TO A MODERNISTIC CHRISTMAS TREE First Line: From what astounding forest Last Line: So that she wept, beneath you, %bright tears of silver-foil? TRINITY PLACE Poem Text First Line: The pigeons that peck at the grass in trinity churchyard Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pigeons; Unemployment; Work; Workers TRINITY PLACE First Line: The pigeons that peck at the grass in trinity churchyard Last Line: It is only the men who are hungry. The pigeons are fed Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Pigeons; Unemployment TRIOLET AGAINST SISTERS Poem Text First Line: Sisters are always drying their hair Subject(s): Sisters TRIOLET AGAINST SISTERS First Line: Sisters are always drying their hair Last Line: Locked into rooms, alone Subject(s): Sisters TWELFTH NIGHT (1) Poem Text First Line: Down from the window take the withered holly Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The TWELFTH NIGHT (1) First Line: Down from the window take the withered holly Last Line: Marked for exchange at abercrombie-fitch's Subject(s): Christmas TWELFTH NIGHT (2) First Line: Down from the window take the withered holly Last Line: To be exchanged (by stealth) at lewis & conger V-DAY Poem Text First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War V-DAY First Line: Savor the hour as it comes. Preserve it in amber Last Line: With a promise kept, with the dangers of battle ended %and the fearful perils of peace not yet begun Subject(s): World War Ii VELVET HAND First Line: I call that parent rash and wild Last Line: We don't debate. %we just give in VILLAGE SPA Poem Text First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number Subject(s): Health Resorts; Spas VILLAGE SPA First Line: By scribbled names on walls, by telephone number Last Line: A juke-box god, enshrined and well at home, %dreadful with neon, shuddering with chrome Subject(s): Health Resorts WE'RE RACING, RACING DOWN THE WALK Poem Text Last Line: On our roller skates Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Children WE'RE RACING, RACING DOWN THE WALK Last Line: We rattle and rock %on our roller skates Subject(s): Spring WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS Poem Text First Line: When little boys are able Subject(s): Women WHY, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WOMEN First Line: I learned in my credulous youth Last Line: Besides, everybody admits it's a man's world. %and just look what they've done to it! WOMEN OF JERICHO Poem Text First Line: Though seven times, or seventy times seven Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology WOMEN OF JERICHO First Line: Though seven times, or seventy times seven Last Line: These armoured walls, and raze the citadel Subject(s): Bible; Religion |
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