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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 18 RUGBY STREET, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So there in number eighteen rugby street's
Last Line: Beautiful, beautiful america!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


55 ELTSLEY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our first home has forgotten us
Last Line: Under the whirling snow, and our future
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


59TH BEAR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We counted bears - as if all we wanted
Last Line: And had to be rested %temporarily somewhere
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


9 WILLOW STREET, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Willow stret, poetical address
Last Line: This was the bat-light we were living in: death
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


AFTER READING SYLVIA PLATH:, by UNKNOWN+8    Poem Source                    
First Line: I opened my door to this nutty witch. I've been suicidal
Last Line: I cry, bursting free
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Suicide


AFTERBIRTH, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Huddled on the floor, the afterbirth
Last Line: The hare in the bowl screamed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


APPREHENSIONS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your writing was also your fear
Last Line: Somebody took that too
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ASTRINGENCY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always think of the charles river
Last Line: Not to be tuggged out, or snapped
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BABYSITTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is ten years, now, since we rowed to children's island
Last Line: And from opposite continents we wave and call. %everything has happened
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Child Care; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BADLANDS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right across america
Last Line: Frightening the earth, and frightening us
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BEACH, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lashed for release, like a migrant eel in november
Last Line: The other face, the real, staring upwards
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BEE GOD, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you wanted bees I never dreamed
Last Line: At the bottom of the well
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BEING CHRISTLIKE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You did not want to be christlike. Though your father
Last Line: Want to be christlike
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BIRD, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under its glass dome, behind its eyes
Last Line: Fell into empty light
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BLACK COAT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember going out there
Last Line: He slid into me
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BLACKBIRD, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were the jailer of your murderer
Last Line: Wrong is right, right wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BLOOD AND INNOCENCE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wilderness
Last Line: Daddy daddy daddy daddy %mummy mummy
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BLUE FLANNEL SUIT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had let it all grow. I had supposed
Last Line: Bending so briefly at your open coffin
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BRASILIA, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You returned %in your steel helm. Helpless
Last Line: Weep in the books
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CARYATIDS: 1, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What were those caryatids bearing?
Last Line: By their hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CARYATIDS: 2, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stupid with confidence, in the playclothes
Last Line: In the wind and snow of your final climb
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CAST, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daddy had come back to hear
Last Line: Your blood that dried on him
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CHAUCER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whan that aprille with his shoures soote'
Last Line: And had to go back into oblivion
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CHILD'S PARK, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did they mean to you, the azalea flowers?
Last Line: Left your whole eden radioactive
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CHIPMUNK, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rippling, bobbing wood-elf, the chipmunk came
Last Line: To take his orphan
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


CLOSER FIRST TO EARTH, by ANNE HAZLEWOOD-BRADY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Complicity killed you. I know. I know
Last Line: From a woman juggler, closer first %to earth, might have saved your life
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Women's Rights


COSTLY SPEECH, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Manhattan's full moon between skyscrapers
Last Line: Which your dead fingers so deftly unpicked
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


COTTAGE STREET, 1953, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Framed in her phoenix fire-screen, edna ward
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


COTTAGE STREET, 1953, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Framed in her phoenix fire-screen, edna ward
Last Line: To state at last her brilliant negative %in poems free and helpless and unjust
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DAFFODILS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember how we picked the daffodils?
Last Line: Through the sod - an anchor, a cross of rust
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DOGS ARE EATING YOUR MOTHER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That is not your mother but her body
Last Line: Who will roll her back into the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DRAWING, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drawing calmed you. Your poker infernal pen
Last Line: Of us can disturb or escape
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DREAM, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your worst dream %came true: that ring on the doorbell
Last Line: To remember this dream. And think about it
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DREAM LIFE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if you descended in each night's sleep
Last Line: Preparing his feast of atonement
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DREAM SONGS: 172, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your face broods from my table, suicide
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


DREAMERS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We didn't find her - she found us
Last Line: Fell in love with her, and I knew it
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


EARTHENWARE HEAD, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who modelled your head of terracotta?
Last Line: That was what you called the head. Evil
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


EPIPHANY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: London. The grimy lilac softness
Last Line: But I failed. Our marriage had failed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ERROR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I brought you to devon. I brought you into my dreamland
Last Line: Still undergoing everything
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FAIRY TALE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Foryty-nine was your magic number
Last Line: Over your corpse and fell with him %into his abyss
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FATE PLAYING, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the message somehow met a goblin
Last Line: And everything holds up its arms weeping
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FEVER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You had a fever. You had a real ailment
Last Line: The burning woman drank it
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FIDELITY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was somewhere to live, I was
Last Line: Used to bury, under the new threshold, %a sinless child
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FINGERS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will remember your fingers?
Last Line: The lares and penates of our house
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FISHING BRIDGE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nearly happy. Brilliantly lit
Last Line: Unmoving and dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FLOUNDERS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was that a happy day? From chatham
Last Line: Only did what poetry told us to do
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FREEDOM OF SPEECH, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At your sixtieth birthday, in the cake's glow
Last Line: Only you and I do not smile
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where was it, in the strand? A display
Last Line: By my ignorance of the simplest things
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


GOD, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were like a religious fanatic
Last Line: God of the euphemism grief
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


GOD HELP THE WOLF AFTER WHOM THE DOGS DO NOT BARK, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There you met it - the mystery of hatred
Last Line: Derision, mud - the mystery of that hatred
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


GRAND CANYON, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a brimming glass of orange juice
Last Line: Close, itself, ours as the voice of your daughter - %paum!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


GYPSY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cathedral was there
Last Line: In a solider crypt
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


HANDS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two immense hands
Last Line: From which the hands have vanished
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


HOROSCOPE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You wanted to study
Last Line: Bringing you your whole fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ID, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm having coffee at the last stop with amy
Last Line: Of the article advised, so you should paraphrase
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Poetry & Poets


IN SYLVIA PLATH COUNTRY, by ERICA MANN JONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The skin of the sea
Last Line: & were swallowed %by your poems?
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


INSCRIPTION, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow-cakes banked the streets. Frozen grey
Last Line: Fatally gone through her and hit him
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ISIS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning we set out to drive around america
Last Line: With what had never died. Never known death
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


KARLSBAD CAVERNS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had seen the bats in the karlsbad caves
Last Line: From the love that moves the sun and the other stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


LIFE AFTER DEATH, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can I tell you that you do not know
Last Line: Beside the corpse of their mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


LITERARY LIFE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed marianne moore's narrow stair
Last Line: Where she could lay down her little wreath
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


LODGER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Potatoes were growing in the yard corner
Last Line: That tried to ignore him?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


LOVERS AND SPOONS, by JOAN COFRANCESCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sylvia plath writes about
Last Line: On a sweaty august noon %to discuss lovers and %spoons
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


MACHINE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark ate at you. And the fear
Last Line: With still time to talk
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


MINOTAUR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mahogany table-top you smashed
Last Line: And your own corpse in it
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


MOONWALK, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glare chunk of moon
Last Line: Through it at me
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


NIGHT-RIDE ON ARIEL, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your moon was full of women
Last Line: In your fist - %that monday
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


NIGHTMARES, DAYMOTHS, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glass jar rattles its split peas and pasta
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ON THE DEATH OF SLYVIA PLATH, by JUDITH HERZBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stand naked behind the line
Last Line: If such motherly wolves %still exist
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ORACLE, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead girls don't go the dying route to get known
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


OUIJA, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always bad news from the ouija board
Last Line: Your husband and your life.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


OWL, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw my world again through your eyes
Last Line: Into my face, taking me for a post
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


PAN, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he stopped at last in the long main street
Last Line: And helpless to warn them
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


PERFECT LIGHT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There you are, in all your innocence
Last Line: Simply melted into the perfect light
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


PICTURE OF OTTO, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You stand there at the blackboard: lutheran
Last Line: Sleeping with his german as if alone
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


PINK WOOL KNITTED DRESS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In your pink wool knitted dress
Last Line: Shaken in a dice-cup and held up to me
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


PLATH, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aurelia, your child had a talent
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


POL POT, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn. Leni riefenstahl
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Riefenstahl, Leni (1902-2003); Tyranny & Tyrants


POL POT, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn. Leni riefenstahl
Last Line: And walked and walked through the terrible blood
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Riefenstahl, Leni (1902-2003); Tyranny And Tyrants


PORTRAITS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happened to howard's portrait of you?
Last Line: This thing's dead immortal doppelganger
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


PRISM, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters of beautiful nauset
Last Line: Under your gravestone
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


RABBIT CATCHER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was may. How had it started? What
Last Line: Came soft into your hands
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


RAG RUG, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody had made one. You admired it
Last Line: It survived our eden
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


RED, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red was your colour
Last Line: But the jewel you lost was blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


REMISSION, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fragile cutting, tamped into earth
Last Line: The mask of his disguise
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


REQUIEM FOR SYLVIA PLATH, by LUCIANA FREZZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A requiem for you
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Women's Rights


ROBBING MYSELF, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came over the snow - the packed snow
Last Line: I had already lost the treasure
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SAD BOY'S SAD BOY, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ruin my hats and all the mat slides glad
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SAM, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was all of a piece to you
Last Line: And tripped me and lay dead. Over in a flash
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SETEBOS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could play miranda?
Last Line: All I could of me, hearing the cry %now of hounds
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SHORT FILM, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not meant to hurt
Last Line: For something that has already happened
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SHOT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your worship needed a god
Last Line: A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SPITE-HOMAGE TO SYLVIA PLATH, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stamped my feet and shook my fist and wept
Last Line: Taking everything into its bog, its tar pit, into the locked box of unbeing
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SPITE-HOMAGE TO SYLVIA PLATH, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stamped my feet and shook my fist and wept
Last Line: Taking everything into its bog, its tar pit, into the locked box of unbeing
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


ST BOTOLPH'S, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our magazine was merely an overture
Last Line: The me beneath it for good
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


STUBBING WHARFE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the canal and the river
Last Line: Seemed to ease open a fraction
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SUTTE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the myth of your first death our deity
Last Line: That sucked the oxygen out of both of us
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SYLVIA'S DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sylvia, sylvia / with a dead box of stones and spoons
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


SYLVIA'S DEATH, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sylvia, sylvia %with a dead box of stones and spoons
Last Line: O funny duchess! %o blond thing
Subject(s): God; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Religion


TABLE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to make you a solid writing-table
Last Line: Leaving you to him
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


TELOS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too many alphas. Too much alpha. Sunstruck
Last Line: Into a glittering universe of alpha
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


TENDER PLACE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your temples, where the hair crowded in
Last Line: Holding in their entrails
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


THE BABYSITTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is ten years, now, since we rowed to children's island
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Child Care; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Baby Sitters; Governesses


THE DREAM SONGS: 172, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your face broods from my table, suicide
Last Line: How one act can affect so many people that are left behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


THE FEMALE SEER WILL BURN UPON THIS PYRE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sylvia plath is setting my hair
Last Line: Of burnt hair and bumblebee husks
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


TO SYLVIA PLATH, by ROCHELLE HOPE MEHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your pity is execrable. I am
Last Line: I hold no discourse with the lugubrious moon. %go away
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


TOTEM, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To ward it off (whatever it was) or attract it
Last Line: Of the one that caught and devoured you
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


TROPHIES, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The panther? It had already dragged you
Last Line: And a ring from its ear, for my trophies
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


UPON LOOKING INTO SYLVIA PLATH'S LETTERS HOME, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, this is how it was to have been born
Last Line: My works overweight; yet we feel twins
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


UPON LOOKING INTO SYLVIA PLATH'S LETTERS HOME, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, this is how it was to have been born
Last Line: My works overweight; and yet we feel twins
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


VENTRILOQUIST, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We caught each other by the body
Last Line: And see justice done
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


VISIT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucas, my friend, one
Last Line: Your story. My story
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


WUTHERING HEIGHTS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walter was guide. His mother's cousin
Last Line: Gradually quenched in understanding
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


YOU HATED SPAIN, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spain frightened you. Spain
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Travel


YOUR PARIS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your paris, I thought, was american
Last Line: Roofs, a traffic bollard, a bottle, me
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)