Anne Sexton's Poetry, by popularity

• In Celebration Of My Uterus

  Everyone in me is a bird.
  I am beating all my wings.

  66 lines
• Menstruation At Forty

  I was thinking of a son.
  The womb is not a clock

  72 lines
• The Child Bearers

  Jean, death comes close to us all,
  flapping its awful wings at us

  35 lines
• The Earth

  God loafs around heaven,
  without a shape

  37 lines
• Star-Nosed Mole

  Mole, angel-dog of the pit,
  digging six miles a night,

  17 lines
• The Earth Falls Down

  If I could blame it all on the weather,
  the snow like the cadaver's table,

  33 lines
• You, Doctor Martin

  You, Doctor Martin, walk
  from breakfast to madness. Late August,

  44 lines
• For Johnny Pole On The Forgotten Beach

  In his tenth July some instinct
  taught him to arm the waiting wave,

  47 lines, 1 comment
• The Division Of Parts

  1.
  Mother, my Mary Gray,

  151 lines
• The Evil Seekers

  We are born with luck
  which is to say with gold in our mouth.

  36 lines
• The Expatriates

  My dear, it was a moment
  to clutch for a moment

  34 lines
• The Errand

  I've been going right on, page by page,
  since we last kissed, two long dolls in a cage,

  41 lines
• Funnel

  The family story tells, and it was told true,
  of my great-grandfather who begat eight

  43 lines
• Doors, Doors, Doors

  1. Old Man
  Old man, it's four flights up and for what?

  79 lines
• To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph

  Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on,
  testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade,

  14 lines
• Some Foreign Letters

  I knew you forever and you were always old,
  soft white lady of my heart. Surely you would scold

  80 lines
• The Angel Food Dogs

  Leaping, leaping, leaping,
  down line by line,

  42 lines
• The Other

  Under my bowels, yellow with smoke,
  it waits.

  32 lines
• The Waiting Head

  If I really am walking with ordinary habit
  past the same rest home on the same local street

  22 lines
• The Assassin

  The correct death is written in.
  I will fill the need.

  30 lines
• The Consecrating Mother

  I stand before the sea
  and it rolls and rolls in its green blood

  42 lines
• The Moss Of His Skin

  "Young girls in old Arabia were often buried alive next
  to their fathers, apparently as sacrifice to the goddesses

  30 lines
• The Author Of The Jesus Papers Speaks

  In my dream
  I milked a cow,

  23 lines
• The Lost Ingredient

  Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole
  to their baths in Atlantic Cuty, for the lost

  24 lines
• Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall

  Oh down at the tavern
  the children are singing

  40 lines
• The Road Back

  The car is heavy with children
  tugged back from summer,

  24 lines
• Where It Was At Back Then

  Husband,
  last night I dreamt

  19 lines
• Elegy In The Classroom

  In the thin classroom, where your face
  was noble and your words were all things,

  16 lines
• The Death King

  I hired a carpenter
  to build my coffin

  31 lines
• The Evil Eye

  It comes oozing
  out of flowers at night,

  42 lines, 1 comment

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