Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinley
Phyllis McGinleywas a Pulitzer Prizewinning American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 March 1905
CountryUnited States of America
heart glasses today
Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
childhood sorrow forget
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.
confusion childhood states
If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
girl children boys
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions And profit from their lost illusions.
garden rivers spiders
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
loss night important
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
father believe qualms-about
Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...
friends mistake errors
Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.
party cocktails cocktail-parties
Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations ...
curly-hair hair spares
Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.
new-york archer love-is
Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.
satisfaction household seeing
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.
heart charity letters
One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.
avant-garde hard
It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.