The Collected Poems

Theaimofthepresentcompleteedition,whichcontainsanumberedsequenceofthe224poemswrittenafter1956togetherwithafurther50poemschosenfromherpre-1956work,istobringSylviaPlath'spoetrytogetherinonevolume,includingthevariousuncollectedandunpublishedpieces,andtoseteverythinginastrueachronologicalorderasispossible,sothatthewholeprogressandachievementofthisunusualpoetwillbecomeaccessibletoreaders.

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections The Colossus, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, Ariel, and The Collected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of Ariel was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.

Above The Oxbow
Admonitions
Aerialist
Aftermath
Alicante Lullaby
All The Dead Dears
Amnesiac
Among The Narcissi
An Appearance
The Applicant
Apprehensions
April 18
April Aubade
Aquatic Nocturne
Ariel
The Arrival Of The Bee Box
The Babysitters
Balloons
Barren Woman
Battle-scene; From The Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer
The Bee Meeting
The Beekeeper's Daughter
The Beggars
Berck-plage
A Birthday Present
Bitter Strawberries
Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light
Black Rook In Rainy Weather
Blackberrying
Blue Moles
Bluebeard
Bocolics
Brasilia
The Bull Of Bendylaw
Burning The Letters
The Burnt-out Spa
By Candlelight
Candles
Channel Crossing
Child
Child's Park Stones
Childless Woman
Cinderella
Circus In Three Rings
The Colossus
The Companionable Ills
Contusion
Conversation Among Ruins
The Courage Of Shutting-up
The Couriers
Crossing The Water
Crystal Gazer
Cut
Daddy
Danse Macabre
Dark Wood, Dark Water
The Dead
Death & Co.
The Death Of Myth-making
Denouement
Departure
The Detective
Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest
Dialogue En Route
Dialogue Over A Ouija Board
Dirge For A Joker
The Dispossessed
The Disquieting Muses
Doom Of Exiles
Doomsday
The Dream
Dream With Clam-diggers
Eavesdropper
Edge
Electra On Azalea Path
Ella Mason And Her Eleven Cats
Elm; For Ruth Fainlight
Epitaph For Fire And Flower
Epitaph In Three Parts: 1
Epitaph In Three Parts: 2
Epitaph In Three Parts: 3
Event
The Everlasting Monday
The Eye-mote
Fable Of The Rhododendron Stealers
Face Lift
Family Reunion
Faun
The Fearful
Female Author
Fever 103 Degrees
Fiesta Melons
Finisterre
Firesong
For A Fatherless Son
Frog Autumn
Full Fathom Five
Getting There
The Ghost's Leavetaking
Gigolo
The Glutton
Go Get The Goodly Squab In Gold-lobed Corn
Goatsucker
Gold Mouths Cry With The Green Young
The Goring
The Great Carbuncle
Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
Gulliver
The Hanging Man
Hardcastle Crags
Heavy Women
The Hermit At Outermost House
I Am Vertical
I Want, I Want
In Midas' Country
In Plaster
Incommunicado
Insolent Storm Strikes At The Skull
Insomniac
The Jailer
Jilted
Kindness
The Lady And The Earthenware Head
Lady Lazarus
Lament; A Villanelle
Landowners
Last Words
Leaving Early
Lesbos
A Lesson In Vengeance
Letter In November
Letter To A Purist
A Life
Little Fugue
Lorelei
Love Is A Parallax
Love Letter
Lyonnesse
Magi
Magnolia Shoals
Man In Black
The Manor Garden
Mary's Song
Maudlin
Mayflower
Medallion
Medusa
Memoirs Of A Spinach-picker
Metamorphoses Of The Moon
Metaphors
Midsummer Mobile
Mirror
Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper
Monologue At 3 A.m.
The Moon And The Yew Tree
Moonrise
Moonsong At Morning
Morning In The Hospital Solarium
Morning Song
The Munich Mannequins
Mushrooms
Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor
Mystic
Natural History
The Net-menders
Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss
New Year On Dartmoor
Nick And The Candlestick
The Night Dances
Night Shift
Notes To A Neophyte
November Graveyard
Ode For Ted
Old Ladies' Home
On Deck
On Looking Into The Eyes Of A Demon Lover
On The Decline Of Oracles
On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad
On The Plethora Of Dryads
The Other
The Other Two
Ouija
Owl
Paralytic
Parliament Hill Fields
Perseus; The Triumph Of Wit Over Suffering
Pheasant
Poem For A Birthday: 1. Who
Poem For A Birthday: 2. Dark House
Poem For A Birthday: 3. Maenad
Poem For A Birthday: 4. The Beast
Poem For A Birthday: 5. Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond
Poem For A Birthday: 6. Witch Burning
Poem For A Birthday: 7. The Stones
Poems, Potatoes
Point Shirley
Polly's Tree
Poppies In July
Poppies In October
The Princess And The Goblins
Private Ground
Prologue To Spring
Prospect
Purdah
Pursuit
Queen Mary's Rose Garden
The Queen's Complaint
The Rabbit Catcher
The Ravaged Face
Recantation
Resolve
Rhyme
The Rival
Sculptor (for Leonard Baskin)
A Secret! A Secret! %how Superior
Sheep In Fog
The Shrike
Sleep In The Mojave Desert
The Sleepers
Snakecharmer
The Snowman On The Moor
Soliloquy Of The Solipist
Song For A Revolutionary Love
Song For A Summer's Day
Sonnet To Satan
Sonnet To Time
Sonnet: To Eva
A Sorcerer Bids Farewell To Seem
Southern Sunrise
Sow
Spider
Spinster
Stars Over The Dordogne
Stillborn
Stings
Stopped Dead
Street Song
Strumpet Song
Suicide Off Egg Rock
The Surgeon At 2 A.m.
The Swarm
Tale Of A Tub
Temper Of Time
Terminal
Thalidomide
The Thin People
Three Women; A Poem For Three Voices
The Times Are Tidy
Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives
To A Jilted Lover
To Eva Descending The Stair; A Villanelle
Totem
Touch-and-go
The Tour
The Trial Of Man
Trio Of Love Songs: 1
Trio Of Love Songs: 2
Trio Of Love Songs: 3
Tulips
Two Campers In Cloud Country
Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea
Two Sisters Of Persephone
Two Views Of A Cadaver Room: 1
Two Views Of A Cadaver Room: 2
Vanity Fair
Virgin In A Tree
Walking In Winter
Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows
Whiteness I Remember
Whitsun
Widow. The Word Concumes Itself
Winter Landscape, With Rooks
A Winter Ship
Winter Trees
A Winter's Tale
Wintering
Words
Words For A Nursery
Words Heard, By Accident, Over The Phone
Wreath For A Bridal
Wuthering Heights
Yaddo: The Grand Manor
Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies; A Sestina
Years
You're
Zoo Keeper's Wife
A Prophet