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"Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Mushrooms (l. 30-33). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Mushrooms (l. 1-6). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!"
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Mushrooms (l. 21-24). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"The blood blooms clean
In you, ruby.
The pain
You wake to is not yours."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Nick and the Candlestick (l. 24-27). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"You are the one
Solid the spaces lean on, envious.
You are the baby in the barn."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Nick and the Candlestick (l. 37-39). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"Even the newts are white,
Those holy Joes.
And the fish, the fish—
Christ! they are panes of ice."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Nick and the Candlestick (l. 12-15). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"The candle
Gulps and recovers its small altitude,
Its yellows heaten."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Nick and the Candlestick (l. 17-19). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colourless. Colourless."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Poppies in July (l. 13-15). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth."
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Poppies in July (l. 3-6). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
"the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly—"
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Poppies in October (l. 2-3). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins. |
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