Best Mcginley Poems
A Thief Called TimeA THIEF CALLED TIME
“Time is the thief you cannot banish”
Phyllis McGinley writer 1905-1978
All that live upon this earth
dwell on borrowed time,
for the human race every
single day that passes by
is a payment off an unsecured
loan, that gifted at birth.
While time can be a wondrous friend
beware when...
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Categories:
mcginley, life, time,
Form:
Free verse
Sands of Time"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...
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Categories:
mcginley, life,
Form:
Tetractys
All Things Will Pass" Time is the thief you can not banish "
Phyllis McGinley, writer 1905-1978
In the silence found in a burning sunset, I count the years
which have passed filled with wondrous wonders
that endlessly reveal themselves
like trembling birds hidden in the gray ashes
of my mind's burnt fires from...
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Categories:
mcginley, life,
Form:
Free verse
Time, My Thief "Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer,...
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Categories:
mcginley, death, future, life,
Form:
Free verse
Our Time
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
~ Phyllis McGinley, Writer,...
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Categories:
mcginley, age, faith, god, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Hope Is the Thing With Feathers(A Cento Poem) Title from Emily Dickinson
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing Miniver Cheevy
and the fire-wood glowed knife-edge Hart Crane
too burning and too quick...
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Categories:
mcginley, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
- Ticking Away -"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978
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Categories:
mcginley, life, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Greatest Thief"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978
A most curious thing is time.
While you are enjoying...
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Categories:
mcginley, time,
Form:
Quatern
Thief In the Night“Time is the thief you cannot banish.”
Phyllis McGinley,
Writer, 1905-1978
When I was a child I longed to be older
so I could be done with childish things
Why Time, did you move so slowly?
Then before I knew it,
you stole my childhood from me.
I never realized I was...
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Categories:
mcginley, allusion, angst, art, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Time Will Tell"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...
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Categories:
mcginley, history, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Is a Thief
"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978
Oh, thief of life- your robber name is Time;
you never blink or take a simple pause.
Through Spring and Summer, Fall, and Wintertime,
this endless movement has...
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Categories:
mcginley, life, time, voyage,
Form:
Dizain
Testimony of Time"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...
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Categories:
mcginley, character, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Personification
Time Passages"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...
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Categories:
mcginley, time,
Form:
Sijo
When Time Runs Out"Time is the thief you cannot banish."
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, ...
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Categories:
mcginley, cancer, death, wedding,
Form:
Monorhyme
Categories:
mcginley, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme