Sylvia Plath

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

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Sylvia Plath

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

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Cinderella

★ ★

The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels,
Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fan
Of silver as the rondo slows; now reels
Begin on tilted violins to span
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Lady Lazarus

★ ★

I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it----
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A Birthday Present

★ ★

What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful?
It is shimmering, has it breasts, has it edges?

I am sure it is unique, I am sure it is what I want.
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Daddy

★ ★

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
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Mad Girl's Love Song

★ ★

'I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
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Ariel

★ ★

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.
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Mirror

★ ★

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful ‚
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Child

★ ★

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new
Whose name you meditate --
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Metaphors

★ ★

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
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10.

A Life

★ ★

Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here's yesterday, last year ---
Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
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