Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (9 November 1928 – 4 October 1974 / Newton, Massachusetts)

#36 on top 500 poets

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Hits of Dec 14, 2018 Friday

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#	Poem Title	Hits		Posts
1	45 Mercy Street	29	76%	0	0%
2	A Curse Against Elegies	4	10%	0	0%
3	A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston	4	10%	0	0%
4	Admonitions To A Special Person	5	13%	0	0%
5	After Auschwitz	17	44%	0	0%
6	Again And Again And Again	8	21%	0	0%
7	All My Pretty Ones	13	34%	0	0%
8	An Obsessive Combination Of Onotological Inscape, Trickery And Love	8	21%	0	0%
9	And One For My Dame	2	5%	0	0%
10	Angels Of The Love Affair	2	5%	0	0%
11	Anna Who Was Mad	14	36%	0	0%
12	As It Was Written	7	18%	0	0%
13	August 17th	3	7%	0	0%
14	August 8th	3	7%	0	0%
15	Baby Picture	7	18%	0	0%
16	Barefoot	7	18%	0	0%
17	Bat	2	5%	0	0%
18	Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)	6	15%	0	0%
19	Buying The Whore	6	15%	0	0%
20	Christmas Eve	21	55%	0	0%
21	Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women	4	10%	0	0%
22	Cinderella	11	28%	0	0%
23	Clothes	8	21%	0	0%
24	Cockroach	4	10%	0	0%
25	Consorting With Angels	12	31%	0	0%
26	Courage	38	100%	0	0%
27	Cripples And Other Stories	15	39%	0	0%
28	Crossing The Atlantic	3	7%	0	0%
29	'Daddy' Warbucks	2	5%	0	0%
30	Demon	4	10%	0	0%
31	Despair	5	13%	0	0%
32	Doctors	8	21%	0	0%
33	Doors, Doors, Doors	4	10%	0	0%
34	Dreaming The Breasts	3	7%	0	0%
35	Earthworm	3	7%	0	0%
36	Elegy In The Classroom	4	10%	0	0%
37	Elizabeth Gone	2	5%	0	0%
38	End, Middle, Beginning	4	10%	0	0%
39	Flee On Your Donkey	4	10%	0	0%
40	For God While Sleeping	3	7%	0	0%
41	For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further	5	13%	0	0%
42	For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach	2	5%	0	0%
43	For My Lover, Returning To His Wife	9	23%	0	0%
44	For The Year Of The Insane	5	13%	0	0%
45	Funnel	1	2%	0	0%
46	Ghosts	2	5%	0	0%
47	Gods	1	2%	0	0%
48	Going Gone	1	2%	0	0%
49	Her Kind	2	5%	0	0%
50	Hornet	2	5%	0	0%
51	Housewife	2	5%	0	0%
52	Hutch	1	2%	0	0%
53	I Remember	14	36%	0	0%
54	In Celebration Of My Uterus	15	39%	0	0%
55	In Excelsis	3	7%	0	0%
56	Just Once	1	2%	0	0%
57	Killing The Love	2	5%	0	0%
58	Kind Sir: These Woods	2	5%	0	0%
59	Knee Song	1	2%	0	0%
60	Lament	1	2%	0	0%
61	Lessons In Hunger	2	5%	0	0%
62	Letter Written On A Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound	4	10%	0	0%
63	Live	6	15%	0	0%
64	Lobster	3	7%	0	0%
65	Locked Doors	2	5%	0	0%
66	Love Letter Written In A Burning Building	2	5%	0	0%
67	More Than Myself	1	2%	0	0%
68	Mother And Daughter	5	13%	0	0%
69	Mr. Mine	2	5%	0	0%
70	Music Swims Back To Me	2	5%	0	0%
71	My Friend, My Friend	1	2%	0	0%
72	Noon Walk On The Asylum Lawn	2	5%	0	0%
73	Oh	1	2%	0	0%
74	Old	4	10%	0	0%
75	Old Dwarf Heart	1	2%	0	0%
76	Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall	1	2%	0	0%
77	Raccoon	3	7%	0	0%
78	Rapunzel	2	5%	0	0%
79	Red Riding Hood	2	5%	0	0%
80	Red Roses	3	7%	0	0%
81	Ringing The Bells	8	21%	0	0%
82	Rowing	2	5%	0	0%
83	Rumpelstiltskin	4	10%	0	0%
84	Said The Poet To The Analyst	2	5%	0	0%
85	Small Wire	3	7%	0	0%
86	Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs	2	5%	0	0%
87	Some Foreign Letters	3	7%	0	0%
88	Song For A Lady	7	18%	0	0%
89	Star-Nosed Mole	5	13%	0	0%
90	Suicide Note	4	10%	0	0%
91	Sylvia's Death	9	23%	0	0%
92	That Day	4	10%	0	0%
93	The Abortion	2	5%	0	0%
94	The Addict	4	10%	0	0%
95	The Ambition Bird	3	7%	0	0%
96	The Angel Food Dogs	1	2%	0	0%
97	The Assassin	2	5%	0	0%
98	The Author Of The Jesus Papers Speaks	3	7%	0	0%
99	The Balance Wheel	1	2%	0	0%
100	The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator	1	2%	0	0%
101	The Bells	2	5%	0	0%
102	The Big Boots Of Pain	2	5%	0	0%
103	The Big Heart	2	5%	0	0%
104	The Black Art	6	15%	0	0%
105	The Break	4	10%	0	0%
106	The Break Away	2	5%	0	0%
107	The Breast	1	2%	0	0%
108	The Child Bearers	3	7%	0	0%
109	The Children	4	10%	0	0%
110	The Civil War	2	5%	0	0%
111	The Consecrating Mother	1	2%	0	0%
112	The Death Baby	2	5%	0	0%
113	The Death King	1	2%	0	0%
114	The Division Of Parts	1	2%	0	0%
115	The Doctor Of The Heart	1	2%	0	0%
116	The Earth	3	7%	0	0%
117	The Earth Falls Down	6	15%	0	0%
118	The Evil Eye	1	2%	0	0%
119	The Evil Seekers	3	7%	0	0%
120	The Exorcists	4	10%	0	0%
121	The Expatriates	2	5%	0	0%
122	The Fallen Angels	4	10%	0	0%
123	The Farmer's Wife	1	2%	0	0%
124	The Firebombers	9	23%	0	0%
125	The Frog Prince	6	15%	0	0%
126	The Fury Of Abandonment	1	2%	0	0%
127	The Fury Of Beautiful Bones	2	5%	0	0%
128	The Fury Of Cooks	1	2%	0	0%
129	The Fury Of Earth	1	2%	0	0%
130	The Fury Of God's Good-Bye	1	2%	0	0%
131	The Fury Of Hating Eyes	1	2%	0	0%
132	The Fury Of Jewels And Coal	2	5%	0	0%
133	The Fury Of Overshoes	7	18%	0	0%
134	The Fury Of Rain Storms	5	13%	0	0%
135	The Fury Of Sunrises	3	7%	0	0%
136	The Fury Of Sunsets	2	5%	0	0%
137	The Gold Key	3	7%	0	0%
138	The Hangman	3	7%	0	0%
139	The House	3	7%	0	0%
140	The Interrogation Of The Man Of Many Hearts	5	13%	0	0%
141	The Inventory Of Goodbye	3	7%	0	0%
142	The Kiss	4	10%	0	0%
143	The Kite	6	15%	0	0%
144	The Legend Of The One-Eyed Man	3	7%	0	0%
145	The Lost Ingredient	2	5%	0	0%
146	The Moss Of His Skin	2	5%	0	0%
147	The Nude Swim	5	13%	0	0%
148	The Other	2	5%	0	0%
149	The Play	5	13%	0	0%
150	The Poet Of Ignorance	3	7%	0	0%
151	The Red Dance	5	13%	0	0%
152	The Road Back	3	7%	0	0%
153	The Room Of My Life	5	13%	0	0%
154	The Stand-Ins	2	5%	0	0%
155	The Starry Night	25	65%	0	0%
156	The Touch	3	7%	0	0%
157	The Truth The Dead Know	6	15%	0	0%
158	The Twelve Dancing Princesses	2	5%	0	0%
159	The Waiting Head	4	10%	0	0%
160	The Wedding Ring Dance	2	5%	0	0%
161	The Wifebeater	1	2%	0	0%
162	The Witch's Life	4	10%	0	0%
163	To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph	10	26%	0	0%
164	Torn Down From Glory Daily	3	7%	0	0%
165	Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward	5	13%	0	0%
166	Us	7	18%	0	0%
167	Wallflower	2	5%	0	0%
168	Wanting To Die	3	7%	0	0%
169	What's That	2	5%	0	0%
170	When Man Enters Woman	7	18%	0	0%
171	Where I Live In This Honorable House Of The Laurel Tree	2	5%	0	0%
172	Where It Was At Back Then	2	5%	0	0%
173	With Mercy For The Greedy	4	10%	0	0%
174	Woman With Girdle	3	7%	0	0%
175	Words	3	7%	0	0%
176	You, Doctor Martin	4	10%	0	0%
177	Young	7	18%	0	0%
	Total	774		0
	Average	4.4		0.0

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