 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1927 - 168 psl.
...followed where it led It brought you to the milk-man's door. (That's why I have not travelled more.) WAS it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed...domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight ? I HAD a little Sorrow, Born of a little Sin, I found a room all damp with gloom And shut us all within... | |
 | Paullina Simons - 1995 - 710 psl.
...and the streetlights threw light and shadows into the room, onto Tully. Shit, she thought. Shit. Was it for this I uttered prayers, and sobbed and cursed...domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? "What's happened to you, Tully?" she whispered. "Where is your husband?" Far away. He is far away.... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1996 - 504 psl.
...call "the joke of rhyme" to question (as in "Grown-Up") the bourgeois imperatives of domesticity: Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed...domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? [138] Finally, employing transparently "simple" narrative modes, they interrogate the ways women —... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas J. Travisano - 2003 - 677 psl.
...the shawl-covered woman, the quiet suffering of those left behind by the economic boom. Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed...domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? 1920 Love is not blind I see with single eye Love is not blind. I see with single eye Your ugliness... | |
 | Connie Cronley - 2006 - 268 psl.
...poems they would have been given to simple me. I might have read this short poem titled "Grown Up": Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed...kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, 1 should retire at half-past eight? I like that metaphor — domestic as a plate. She died in 1950... | |
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Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed And kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight! 