Index of works by Sylvia Plath

This page is an index of known works by Sylvia Plath. There are two major categories: Poetry and Prose. Prose is divided between two genres: fiction (F) and non-fiction (NF). The lists are arranged alphabetically. Please contact me if you notice something is missing or incorrect.

Poetry A-a-choooo Above the Oxbow Admonitions Adolescence Advice for an Artificer Aerialist Aftermath Alicante Lullaby All I Can Tell You Is about the Fog All the Dead Dears Alone and Alive Alone and Alone in the Woods Was I Amnesiac Variant Title: Amnesiac: The Man with Amnesia Among the Narcissi Variant Title: Octogenarian & Narcissi in a high wind Variant Title: Percy Among the Narcissi Variant Title: The Sea at the Door "Among the tall deep-rooted grasses" [first line] Angelic Girls Apology for an April Satyr Apology to Pan Apparel for April An Appearance Variant Title: The Methodical Woman Variant Title: Song Apple Blossoms The Applicant Apprehensions Variant Title: Walls April April 18 April Aubade April Blossoms Aquatic Nocturne Ariel Variant Title: Lioness of God Also published as The Horse The Arrival of the Bee Box Variant Title: The Beekeepers Daybook august night Autumn Portrait Awake! The Babysitters Bald Madonnas A Ballad Ballad Banale A Ballet Dancer Balloons Barren Woman Variant Title: Small Hours Variant Title: Night Thoughts Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy "The Seafarer" The Beast Part 4 of Poem for a Birthday The Bed Book The Bee Meeting The Beekeeper's Daughter The Beggars Variant title: The Beggars of Benidorm Market Berck-Plage Bereft Betsy and Sylvia Birthay [sic.] Greeting to Mother A Birthday Present Bitter Strawberries Variant Title: Swords into Plowshares Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light Black Rook in Rainy Weather Blackberrying Blue Moles "Blue shingled rooftops slippery with rain" [first line] Bluebeard Brasilia "The breath of my body steams up to me, I am warm" [first line] The Bronze Boy Bucolics The Bull of Bendylaw Burning the Letters The Burnt-out Spa By Candlelight Variant Title: Nick and the Candlestick Variant Title: Winter by Candlelight Camp Helen Storrow Candles Carnival Carnival Nocturne Channel Crossing Chef d'Oeuvre Child Variant Title: Paralytic Trap Childless Woman Child's Park Stones Christmas Christmas Morning Cinderella Circus in Three Rings City Streets City Wife Class Song - 1950 "— Click-click: tick-tick" (first line) Closet Drama The Colossus The Companionable Ills Complaint Complaint of the Crazed Queen The Complex Couch Contusion Conversation Among the Ruins The Courage of Shutting-Up Variant Title: The Courage of Quietness The Couriers Crime Doesn't Pay Crossing the Equinox Crossing the Water Variant Title: Night Country Variant Title: Rock Lake at Night Crystal Gazer Cut Daddy Danse Macabre Dark House Part 2 of Poem for a Birthday The Dark River Dark Wood, Dark Water The Dead Death & Co. The Death of Myth-Making Denouement Departure Desert Song The Desperate Hours The Detective Variant Title: The Millstones Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest Dialogue en Route Dialogue Over a Ouija Board Dirge for a Joker Dirge for Abigail Dirge for a Maiden Aunt Dirge in Three Parts The Dispossessed The Disquieting Muses Doom of Exiles Doomsday Dover The Dream Dream of the Hearse-Driver Dream with Clam Diggers Dreams The Dying Witch Addresses Her Young Apprentice "The earth had wilted in the heat" [first line] Earthbound The Earthenware Head Variant title: The Lady and the Earthenware Head Earth and Sky Eavesdropper Edge Variant Title: Nuns in Snow Electra on Azalea Path Elegy Elizabeth in April Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats Elm Variant Title: Catching Nothing by and Old Stocking in Winthrop Bay Variant Title: A Sea at the Door Variant Title: A Wind in the Great Elm Published as: The Elm Speaks Enchantment Ennui Epitaph for Fire and Flower Epitaph in Three Parts Eve Describes Her Birthday Party Event Evergreens Variant Title: Quarrel The Everlasting Monday Evolution The Eye-Mote Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers Face Lift The Fairy Scarf Fairy Wonders Fall Guy Family Reunion The Farewell Farewell to Flash Faun Variant title: Metamorphosis The Fearful Female Author Fever Fever 103° Fever in Winter Fiesta Melons Finality Finisterre Fire and Frost Fireside Reveries Firesong Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond Part 5 of Poem for a Birthday Fog For a Fatherless Son Variant Title: To an Abandoned One For Robert Frog Autumn Full Fathom Five Geography Lesson Getting There Gigolo The Ghost's Leavetaking Variant title: Departure of the Ghost The Glutton Go Get the Goodly Squab Goatsucker A Golden Afternoon Gold Leaves Shiver Published as: Gold Leaves Stir Gold Mouths Cry Gold Mouths Cry With the Green Young gone is the river The Goring The Grackles The Great Carbuncle Green Rock, Winthrop Bay Gulliver Variant Title: Gulliver in Lilliput Halloween The Hanging Man Hardcastle Crags Variant Title: Nocturne Variant Title: Walk in the Night Originally published as Night Walk Harlequin Love Song Have You Forgotten? Heavy Woman Variant Title: Waiting Women The Hermit at Outermost House His Majesty, The Ocean Home Thoughts from London housewife The Home of Straying Blossoms Humoresque humpty-dumpty I Am an American I Am Vertical "I do what you wish, but without abandoning the desire" [first line] I Have Found the Perfect World "I put my fingers in my ears" [first line] I Reach Out I thought that I could not be hurt I Want, I Want Ice Age (I) Ice Age (II) Incommunicado "In a Mossy Woodland Vale" [first line] In Memoriam In Midas' Country In Passing In Plaster In the Corner of the Garden Variant title: My Garden Incident Insolent Storm Strikes at the Skull Insomniac Interlude The Invalid Invitation to Cove Invitation to our Camp Nurse Item: Stolen, One Suitcase The Jailer January Jilted Joy Kindness King of the Ice The Lady and the Earthenware Head Variant title: The Earthenware Head Lady Lazarus The Lake Lament Variant Title: Dirge Landowners Last Words Leaving Early Lesbos A Lesson in Vengeance Let the Rain Fall Gently Letter in November Letter to a Purist A Life Little Fugue Variant Title: Fugue: Yew Tree and Clouds Variant Title: On Listening to Laura Riding Variant Title: Yew Alone Variant Title: Yew Tree in March The Little New Year Lonely Song Lorelei Love Is a Parallax Love Letter Lyonnesse Mad Girl's Love Song Maenad Part 3 of Poem for a Birthday Magi Magnolia Shoals Main Street at Midnight Later published as "Owl" Man In Black The Manor Garden March March 15 Muse March 21 marcia Marcia and Sylvia Mary's Song Variant Title: Song of Mary Variant Title: Sunday Maudlin Variant title: Mad Maudlin May Mayflower Medallion Medusa Variant Title: Mum: Medusa Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker Metamorphoses of the Moon Metamorphosis Variant title: Metamorphosis Metaphors Midnight in the Mid-Atlantic Midnight Snow Midsummer Mobile Variant Title: Suspend This Day Million Dollar Month Mirror Variant Title: Mirror Talk Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper The Mistake Monologue at 3 a.m. The Moon and the Yew Tree Moonrise Moonsong at Morning Morning in the Hospital Solarium Morning Song Mornings of Mist Motherly Love The Munich Mannequins Variant Title: The Bald Mannequins Mushrooms Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor My Garden My Grandfather's Birthday My Grandmother My House My Mother and I Mystic Variant title: Woodcut My Teaparty Natural History Neither Moonlight Nor Starlight The Net-Menders Never Try to Know More Than You Should Never try to trick me with a kiss neveryou New England Library New England Winter without Snow New Year on Dartmoor Nick and the Candlestick The Night Dances Night Shift Printed under the title "Poem" Not Here Notes on Zarathustra's Prologue Notes to a Neophyte November Graveyard Obsession October Odds and Ends Ode for Ted Ode to a Bitten Plum Old Ladies' Home Oh, once upon a summertime [first line] 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 Futility of a Lexicon On the Liberty of a Lexicon On the Plethora of Dryads The Other Variant Title: The Other One Variant Title: Mannequin The Other Two Ouija Our Poem Owl Printed under the title "Main Street at Midnight" P. N. Pagan Song Pan Paradox Parallax Paralytic Parliament Hill Fields Patience Pearls of Dew (a chant) Peace A Peripatetic Sonnet (by a peripatetic Smith Girl) Persecuted Perseus Perseus: The Triumph of Wit over Suffering Pheasant Variant Title: The Pheasant Pigeon Post A Poem Poem for a Birthday 1. Who 2. Dark House 3. Maenad 4. The Beast 6. Witch Burning 7. The Stones Poems, Potatoes Point Shirley Polly's Tree Poppies in July Poppies in October Portrait Portrait D'une Jeune Fille The Princess and Goblins Private Ground Variant Title: In Frost Time Prologue to Spring Prophet: Liberal Translation Prospect Purdah Pursuit Queen Mary's Rose Garden The Queen's Complaint Question The Rabbit Catcher Variant Title: Snares Rain The Rain The Ravaged Face Recantation Recess Recognition Reflection Reflections at 12 Resolve Reverie Rhyme Riddle The Rival rondeau Rondeau Redoublé The Scarlet Beacon The Scullion's Dream Sculptor Sea Symphony Second Winter A Secret Seek No More the Young Shee Will Be Always Sheep in Fog Variant Title: Fog Sheep The Shrike Silver Thread Simplicity Sleep in the Mojave Desert The Sleepers "The slime of all my yesterdays" (first line) "Slow, slow, the rhythm of the moon" [first line] Small Hours Variant Title: Night Thoughts Variant Title: Barren Woman Snakecharmer Snow The Snowflake Star The Snowman on the Moor Soliloquy of the Solipsist Solo "Something there was about the time" [first line] Song Song for a Revolutionary Love Song for a Summer's Day Song for a Thaw Song of a Superfluous Spring Song of Eve Song of the Daydreamer Sonnet for a Green-eyed Sailor Sonnet: The Suitcases are Packed Again Sonnet to a Dissembling Spring Variant title: To a Dissembling Spring Sonnet to a Shade Sonnet to Satan Published as The Suitcases are Packed Again Sonnet: To Eva Sonnet: To Spring Sonnet: To Time Song for a Summer's Day A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem Sorrow Southern Sunrise Sow Spider Spinning Song Spinster Spring Spring Again The Spring Parade Spring Sacrament Spring Song Spring Song to a Housewife Stars Over the Dordogne Variant Title: Stars at Lacan A stately pine tree silhouetted Steely-Blue Crags Stillborn Variant Title: A Book of Dead Poems Stings (I) Stings (II) The Stoic The Stones Part 7 of Poem for a Birthday Stopped Dead The Stranger "The stream, from a subterranean" [first line] Strumpet Song Submerged Referred to by Olwyn Hughes in 1970 "The sweet sickish female odor" [first line] Suicide Off Egg Rock The Suitcases are Packed Again Summer Street The sunrise The Surgeon at 2 a.m. The Swarm Variant Title: The Bees Tale of a Tub Temper of Time Terminal Thalidomide Variant Title: Half-Moon The Thin People Variant title: The Moon was a Fat Woman Once "A time of clear white understanding" [first line] The Times Are Tidy Thoughts 'Three Caryatids Without a Portico' by Hugh Robus, A study in sculptural dimensions Three Sycamores Referred to by Janice Markey, 1993: 165 Three Women Thy Kingdom Come Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives To a Jilted Lover Variant title: Apotheosis Varient title: Apotheosis of an Avenging Lover To Ariadne; (Deserted by Theseus) To Eva To Eva Descending the Stair To Miss Cox To the Boy Inscrutable as God To Time Torch Song Totem Touch-and-Go The Tour The Traveller The Trial of Man Trio of Love Songs Triolet Frivole Tulips Tulips at Dawn Twelfth Night Twilight Two Campers in Cloud Country (Rock Lake, Canada) Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea Two Sisters of Persephone Two Views of a Cadaver Two Views of Withins Valentine; Lines to a Rich Bachelor Van Winkle's Village Vanity Fair Verbal Calisthenics Virgin in a Tree Virus TV or (We Don't Have a Set Either) Voices The Waits Waking in Winter Wallflower Warning Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows Wayfaring at the Whitney; A Study in Sculptural Dimensions Variant title: Daedalus and Icarus by Lindsay Daen Variant title: Kafka by Sahl Swarz We Too Have Gone Together Wellfleet Beach Plums When the Stars Are Pale and Cool White Girl between Yellow Curtains White Phlox Whiteness I Remember Whitsun Who Part 1 of Poem for a Birthday "Why must the slim spring rains fall now" [first line] Widow Wild Geese The Wind Winter Elegy A Winter Ship A Winter Sunset Winter Words Wintering Winter Landscape, with Rooks A Winter Ship A Winter Sunset A Winter's Tale Winter Trees Variant Title: Trees Variant Title: Trees in Winter Winter Words Wintering A Wish Upon a Star Witch Burning Part 6 of Poem for a Birthday Whiteness I Remember Whitsun Woodcut See Mystic Words Words Fall to Winter Words for a Nursery Variant Title: Hand Song Variant Title: Rhyme for a Nursery Variant Title: Riddle Words heard, by accident, over the phone Words of Advice to an English Prof Wreath for a Bridal Wuthering Heights Variant Title: Withins Variant Title: The Bald Truth About: Grass at Wuthering Heights Yaddo : The Grand Manor Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies; A Sestina for the Douanier Years You're Youth Youth's Appeal for Peace Zeitgeist at the Zoo Zoo-Keeper's Wife

Prose About a year ago I was babysitting (F) Above the Oxbow (F) Afternoon in Hardcastle Crags (NF) All the Dead Dears (F) America! America! (NF) American Poetry Now: Introduction (NF) Among the Bumblebees (F) Among the Shadow Throngs (F) An American in Paris (NF) And Summer Will Not Come Again (F) The Arts in America: 1954. Collage by a Collegian (NF) As a Baby-Sitter Sees It (NF) The Atomic Threat (NF) The Attic View (F) Aunt Rennie and the Elves (F) Austrian-born Junior Enlists in Women's Marine Corps, 'Can't wait to get there' (NF) B. and K. at the Claridge (NF) Beach Plum Season on Cape Cod (NF) The Bell Jar (F) The Black Bull (F) The Bookland Carpet (F) Brief Encounter (F) The Brink (F) Cambridge Letter (NF) Cambridge Vistas (NF) Published under the name Sylvia Plath Hughes Change-About in Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (F) Published as Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen The Christmas Heart (F) Variant title: In the Mountains (F) Club Report (NF) Coincidentally Yours (F) A Comparison (NF) "Context" (NF) DAR Park (NF?) The Dark River (F) The Daughters of Blossom Street (F) Variant title: This Earth Our Hospital (F) A Day in June (F) The Day Mr. Prescott Died (F) Day of Success (F) Den of Lions (F) Dialogue (F) Doubletake(F) Variant title: The Interminable Loaf (F) Variant title: Double Exposure (F) East Wind (F) Eccentricity (NF) The English Bike (F) The Estonian (F) An Evening at the Hofritzers (NF) Exlporations Lead to Interesting Discoveries (NF) Falcon Yard (F) The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle (F) The Fifty-ninth Bear (F) First Date (F) From the Memoirs of a Baby Sitter (F) The Garden Party (F) General Jodpur's Conversion (NF) Gramercy Park (F) The Green Rock (F) Guess Where Its Heaven to be a Girl (NF) Heat (F) Heather-bird's Eyebrows (F) Hill of Leopards (F) Home Is Where the Heart Is (F) The Ideal Summer (NF) Initiation (F) In Retrospect: A Plea for Moderation (NF) Co-authored by Marcia Brown In the Mountains (F) Variant title: The Christmas Heart (F) In This Field We Wander Through (F) The International Flavor (F) The Invisible Man (F) Irene (F) The Island; a radio play (F) Co-authored by Mary Ventura The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit (F) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (F) Junior High Briefs (NF) Kitchen of the Fig Tree (NF) Last Word on College (NF) The Latvian (F) Laughton Hold Audience Spellbound with Readings (NF) The Laundromat Affair (F) Leaves from a Cambridge Notebook (NF) The Lucky Stone (F) Published as The Perfect Place (F) The Magic Mirror (NF) Marie (F) Mary Jane's Passport (F) Mary Ventura (F) Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom (F) A May Morning (F) May Week Fashions (NF) A Morning in the Agora (F) The Miraculous End of Miss Minton (F) Mission to Mars (F) Mosaics - An Afternoon of Discovery (NF) Mothers (F) Mrs. McFague and the Corn Vase Girl (F?) The Mummy (F) The Mummy's Tomb (F) The music wafted out from the radio (F) My Studio Romance (F) The New Day (F) The New Girl (F) The New Zealand spinach was good that morning (F) The music wailed out from the radio... (F) The Nielson Professor (NF) Oblongs (NF) Ocean 1212-W (NF) On God (NF) Operation Valentine (F) Oregonian Originals (NF) Pair of Queens (NF) The Perfect Place (F) The Perfect Set-Up (F) Place: A bedroom, Saturday night, in June (F) Platinum Summer (F) Poppy Day at Cambridge (NF) A Prospect of Cornucopia (F) Remember the Stick Man (F) Review of Stones of Troy by C. A. Trypanis (NF) Rewards of a New England Summer (NF) Room in the World (F) Runaway (F) Sarah (F) Sally (F) The Shadow (F) Shadow Girl (F) Shadown Throngs (F) Shale That Is 400,000,000 Years Old at Smith Lab (NF) Side Hall Girl (F) Sketchbook of a Spanish Summer (NF) Smith College In Retrospect (NF) Smith College Play Delights 'Hamp Audience (NF) Smith Review Revived (NF) The Smokey Blue Piano (F) Social Life Without Sororities: A Profile of Smith College (NF) Spring Sketching in Paris (NF) Snow Blitz (F) Stardust (F) Star Island (F) Stone Boy with Dolphin (F) Suburban Nocturne (F) Suffering Angel (NF) Summer Band Concert (NF) Sunday at the Mintons (F) Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit (F) Sweetie Pie and the Gutter Men (F) Tea with Olive Higgins-Prouty (NF) Teen-agers Can Shape the Future (F) That Widow Mangada (F) This Earth Our Hospital (F) Variant title: The Daughters of Blossom Street (F) Though Dynasties Pass (F) Tomorrow Begins Today (F) Tongues of Stone (F) Two Fat Girls on Beacon Hill (F) Two Gods of Alice Denway (F) Venus in the Seventh (F) Victory (F) The Visitor (F) A Walk to Withens (NF) Wardrobe for Six Weeks in Europe (NF) Watch My Line (F) Watching the Water-Voles (NF) The White Mantle Murders (F) Wie Ich Einmal Mein Kleinen Bruder Neckte (F) A Winter's Tale (F) The Wishing Box (F) Youth's Appeal for World Peace (NF) Co-authored by Perry Norton

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