Anne Sexton

1928-1974 / Female / American
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45 Mercy StreetIn my dream, / drilling into the marrow / of my entire bone,
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A Curse Against ElegiesOh, love, why do we argue like this? / I am tired of all your pious talk. / Also, I am tired of all the dead.
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Admonitions To A Special PersonWatch out for power, / for its avalanche can bury you, / snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain.
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After AuschwitzAnger, / as black as a hook, / overtakes me.
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Again And Again And AgainYou said the anger would come back / just as the love did. / I have a black look I do not
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All My Pretty OnesFather, this year's jinx rides us apart / where you followed our mother to her cold slumber; / a second shock boiling its stone to your heart,
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And One For My DameA born salesman, / my father made all his dough / by selling wool to Fieldcrest, Woolrich and Faribo.
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Angels Of The Love Affair"Angels of the love affair, do you know that other, / the dark one, that other me?" / 1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALS
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Anna Who Was MadAnna who was mad, / I have a knife in my armpit. / When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages.
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An Obsessive Combination ofOntological Inscape, Trickery and Love / Busy, with an idea for a code, I write / signals hurrying from left to right,
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