Index of Works by Sylvia Plath
This page is an index of known works by Sylvia Plath. There are three major categories: Poetry, Prose (Fiction), and Prose (Nonfiction). The lists are arranged alphabetically. Where possible and when known, following each title the date(s) of composition of a work is listed. Please contact me if you notice something is missing or incorrect.
Poetry
"A-a-choooo"
"Above the Oxbow" before 25 June 1958
"Admonition" 17 April 1953
Published as "3" in "Trio of Love Songs"
Later titled: "Warning"
"Admonitions" circa 15 April 1953
Variant title: 'Never Try To Know More Than You Should'
"Adolescence" 1949
"Advice for an Artificer" 12 April 1955
"Aerialist" 30 May 1956
"Aftermath" March? 1959
"Alicante Lullaby" February/March? 1959
"All I Can Tell You Is about the Fog" 18 February 1952
"All the Dead Dears" 7 April 1957
"Alone and Alive"
"Alone and Alone in the Woods Was I" 11 September 1947
"Amnesiac" 21 October 1962
Variant Title: "Amnesiac: The Man with Amnesia"
"Among the Narcissi" 5 April 1962
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" 1943
"Apology to Pan" 18 April 1955
Variant title: "Apology for an April Satyr" 18 April 1955
"Apotheosis" 9 March 1955
Variant title: "To a Jilted Lover"
"Apparel for April" 2 February 1955
"An Appearance" 4 April 1962
Variant Title: "The Methodical Woman"
Variant Title: "Song"
"Apple Blossoms" 1943
"An Apple Tree" 1943
"The Applicant" 11 October 1962
"Apprehensions" 28 May 1962
Variant Title: "Walls"
"April" 20 May 1947
"April 18" circa 18 April 1951
"April: 1949"
"April Aubade" 14 February 1955
Variant title: "Spring Sacrament"
"April Blossoms"
"April Rhapsodies" 18 November 1956
"Aquatic Nocturne"
"Ariel" 27 October 1962
Variant Title: "Lioness of God"
Also published as "The Horse"
"The Arrival of the Bee Box" 4 October 1962
Variant Title: "The Beekeepers Daybook"
"august night" August 1951
"Autumn Portrait"
"Awake!" 21 May 1945
"The Babysitters" 29 October 1961
"A Ballad"
"Ballad Banale" 8-9 January 1955
"A Ballet Dancer"
"Balloons" 4 February 1963
"Barren Woman" 21 February 1961
Variant Title: "Small Hours"
Variant Title: "Night Thoughts"
"Battle-Scene from the Comic Operatic Fantasy 'The Seafarer'" 21 March 1958
"The Bed Book" before 2 May 1959
"The Bee Meeting" 3 October 1962
"The Beekeeper's Daughter" March? 1959
"The Beggars" before 27 July 1958
Variant title: "The Beggars of Benidorm Market"
"Berck-Plage" 30 June 1962
"Bereft" 1947
"Betsy and Sylvia" 1945
"Birthay [sic.] Greeting to Mother" 1945
"A Birthday" 1943
"A Birthday Present" 30 September 1962
"Bitter Strawberries" 10 July 1950
Variant Title: "Swords into Plowshares"
"Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light" 8 March 1955
"Black Rook in Rainy Weather" 17-18 November 1956
"Blackberrying" 23 September 1961
"Blue Moles" before 11 November 1959
"Blue shingled rooftops slippery with rain" [first line]
"Bluebeard" 1952-1955
"Brasilia" 1 December 1962
"The breath of my body steams up to me, I am warm" [first line]
"The Bronze Boy" 1952
"Bucolics" 5 May 1956
"The Bull of Bendylaw" 27 January 1959
"Burning the Letters" 13 August 1962
"The Burnt-out Spa" 11 November 1959
"By Candlelight" 24 October 1962
Variant Title: "Nick and the Candlestick"
Variant Title: "Winter by Candlelight"
"Camp Helen Storrow" 7-9 July 1945
"Candles" 17 October 1960
"Carnival" 21 June 1948
"Carnival Nocturne" before 7 August 1952
"Channel Crossing" 23 February 1956
"Checkmate" n.d.
"Chef d'Oeuvre"
"Child" 28 January 1963
Variant Title: "Paralytic Trap"
"Childless Woman" 1 December 1962
"Child's Park Stones" 22 May - 11 June 1958
"Christmas" 1942
"Cinderella" before 11 September 1952
Variant title: "Twelfth Night"
"Circus in Three Rings" 8 September 1954; revised 23 April 1955
See also: "The Lion Tamer" 20 April 1955
"City Streets" 11 September 1947
"City Wife"
"Class Poem" 14 May 1947
"Class Song - 1950" [1950]
"— Click-click: tick-tick" [first line]
"Closet Drama"
"The Colossus" before 19 October 1959
"Coming Home" 1943
"The Companionable Ills" Fall? 1958
"Complaint" 6 February 1955
"Complaint of the Crazed Queen" 18-19 April 1956
Variant title: "Mad Queen's Song" 18-19 April 1956
Variant title: "The Queen's Complaint" 18-19 April 1956
"The Complex Couch" 1952-1955
"Contusion" 4 February 1963
"Conversation Among the Ruins" Spring 1956
"The Courage of Shutting-Up" 2 October 1962
Variant Title: "The Courage of Quietness"
"The Couriers" 4 November 1962
"Crime Doesn't Pay"
"Crossing the Equinox" before 19 November 1952
"Crossing the Water" 4 April 1962
Variant Title: "Night Country"
Variant Title: "Rock Lake at Night"
"Crystal Gazer" 3-5 June 1956
"Cut" 24 October 1962
"Daddy" 12 October 1962
"Daedalus and Icarus by Lindsay Daen" 28 February 1955
Part of: "Wayfaring at the Whitney" 28 February 1955
"Danse Macabre" 30 January 1955
"The Dark River" circa 1949-1950
"Dark Wood, Dark Water" October? 1959
"The Dead" 11 April 1952; 16 April 1954 (revised)
"Death & Co." 14 November 1962
"The Death of Myth-Making" Fall? 1958
"Demon of Doom" 8 September 1954
"Denouement"
"Departure" Fall 1956 or before 27 July 1958
"Departure of the Ghost" 21 March 1958
Variant title: "The Ghost's Leavetaking"
"Desert Song" 19 April 1955
"The Desperate Hours" before 1950(?)
"The Detective" 1 October 1962
Variant Title: "The Millstones"
"Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest" Fall 1956
"Dialogue en Route" 11-12 April 1953
"Dialogue Over a Ouija Board" circa/after 7 August 1957
"Dirge for a Joker"
"Dirge for a Maiden Aunt" 1952-1954
"Dirge for Abigail" 1952-1954
"Dirge in Three Parts" Spring 1953
"The Dispossessed" before 29 September 1954
"The Disquieting Muses" 22-28 March 1958
"Doom of Exiles" 16 April 1954
"Doomsday" 21 February 1953
"Dover"
"The Dream" 7 February 1955
Variant Title: "Dream of the Hearse-Driver"
"Dream of the Hearse-Driver" 7 February 1955
Variant Title: "The Dream"
"Dream with Clam Diggers" 1 June 1956
"Dreams" 1945
"The Dying Witch Addresses Her Young Apprentice" before 3 October 1956
"The earth had wilted in the heat" [first line]; 20 May 1947
"Earthbound" circa 1947-1948
"The Earthenware Head" before 3 February 1957
Variant title: "The Lady and the Earthenware Head"
"Eavesdropper" 15 October, 31 December 1962
"Edge" 5 February 1963
Variant Title: "Nuns in Snow"
"Electra on Azalea Path" before 20 March 1959
"Elegy" 6 February 1955
"Elizabeth in April" 1950
"Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats" 2 June 1956
"Elm" 19 April 1962
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" 11 June 1945
"Ennui" 12 September 1954
"Epitaph for Fire and Flower" 18-19 August 1956
"Epitaph in Three Parts" 11 February 1955
"Eve Describes Her Birthday Party" 7 September 1954
Variant title: "To the Boy Inscrutable as God"
"Event" 21 May 1962
"Evergreens" 22 October 1956
Variant Title: "Quarrel"
"The Everlasting Monday" 1957/early 1958
"Evolution" before September 1950
"The Eye-Mote" February/March? 1959
"Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers" before 25 June 1958
"Face and Spirit — or Lines to Ruth [Chadwick]" 9 January 1945
"Face Lift" 15 February 1961
"The Fairy Scarf" 1 August 1945
"Fairy Wonders" 20 March 1943
"Fall Guy"
"Family Reunion" 1950
"The Farewell" 1948
"Farewell to Flash" 1945
"Faun" 18-21 April 1956
Variant title: "Metamorphosis" 18-21 April 1956
"The Fearful" 16 November 1962
"Female Author"
"Fever" circa early 1962
"Fever 103°" 20 October 1962
"Fever in Winter" early 1962
"Fiesta Melons" February/March? 1959
"Finality" circa 1947-1948
"Finisterre" 29 September 1961
"Fire and Frost"
"Fireside Reveries" before 24 January 1947
"Firesong" 21-22 April 1956
"Fog" with pseudonym 'Sandra Peters' circa 1947-1948
"For a Fatherless Son" 26 September 1962
Variant Title: "To an Abandoned One"
"For Robert"
"Frog Autumn" August? 1958
"Full Fathom Five" 22 May - 11 June 1958
"Full Moon" 4 August 1956
"Geography Lesson" April-May 1951
"Getting There" 6 November 1962
"Giant Steps" 6-7 July 1955
"Gigolo" 29 January 1963
"The Ghost's Leavetaking" 21 March 1958
Variant title: "Departure of the Ghost"
"The Glutton" 27 April 1956
"Go Get the Goodly Squab" 5-6 April 1952
"Goatsucker" 20 January 1959
"Gold Leaves Shiver" circa 4 October 1950
Published as: "Gold Leaves Stir"
"Gold Mouths Cry"
"Gold Mouths Cry With the Green Young" circa 8 October 1951
"A Golden Afternoon" 25 August 1946
"Golden Midas" 5 September 1956
"Gone is the River" circa 1947-1948
Revised as: "Riverside Reverie" before August 1952
"The Goring" Early July? 1958
"The Grackles" circa 1947-1948
"The Great Carbuncle" Summer? 1957
"Green Rock, Winthrop Bay" circa Spring 1958
"Gulliver" 6 November 1962
Variant Title: "Gulliver in Lilliput"
"Halloween" 18 October 1944
Variant Title: "A Hallowe'en Ditty"
"The Hanging Man" 27 June 1960
"Hardcastle Crags" Summer? 1957
Variant Title: "Nocturne"
Variant Title: "Walk in the Night"
Originally published as "Night Walk"
"Harlequin Love Song" 9 January-3 February 1955
"Have You Forgotten?" 1948
"Heavy Women" 26 February 1961
Variant Title: "Waiting Women"
"The Hermit at Outermost House" January? 1959
"His Majesty, The Ocean" before 11 February 1947
"Home Thoughts from London" before 21 October 1960
"Homecoming" 1943
"housewife"
"The Home of Straying Blossoms" 1944, 1945
"How I'll Spend My Vacation" 17 May 1945
"How shall winter" [first line]; 27 February 1955
"Humoresque" 1949
"humpty-dumpty"
"I Am an American" circa June 1951
"I Am Vertical" 28 March 1961
"I do what you wish, but without abandoning the desire" [first line]
"I found my God in Auden" 21 March 1953
"I had my allowance" [first line]
"I Have Found the Perfect World" 1948
"I put my fingers in my ears" [first line]; 1949
"I Reach Out" 1948
"I saw a little birdie" [first line]; 17 May 1941
"I thought that I could not be hurt" 30 May 1947
"I Want, I Want" Fall? 1958
"I will stroll" [first line]; 23 March 1945
"Ice Age (I)" 16 November 1954
"Ice Age (II)" 2 March 1955
"The Ideal" 16 April 1948
"Incommunicado" 1-3 July 1958
"In a Mossy Woodland Vale" [first line]
"In Memoriam" 13 October 1946
"In Midas' Country" 12 May 1959
"In Passing" with pseudonym 'Sandra Peters' circa 1949
"In Plaster" 18 March 1961
"In the Corner of the Garden" 18 June 1945
Variant title: "My Garden"
"Incident" circa Spring 1953
"Insolent Storm Strikes at the Skull" 31 August 1954
"Insomniac" 23 May 1961
"Interlude" May 1947
"The Invalid" 1950
"Invitation to Cove" 1945
"Invitation to our Camp Nurse" 1945
"Item" 20 November 1956
"Item: Stolen, One Suitcase" 8 January 1955
"The Jailer" 17 October 1962
"January"
"Jilted" 1952-1954
"Joy" 16 April 1948
"Kafka by Sahl Swarz" 28 February 1955
Part of: "Wayfaring at the Whitney" 28 February 1955
"Kindness" 1 February 1963
"King of the Ice" 10 January 1945
"Kitchen Interlude" circa 1950
"The Lady and the Earthenware Head" before 3 February 1957
Variant title: "The Earthenware Head"
"Lady Lazarus" 23-29 October 1962
"The Lake" 16 July 1946
"Lament" 5 February 1955
Variant Title: "Dirge" 5 February 1955
"Landowners" before 3 July 1958
"Last Words" 21 October 1961
"Latvian Threnody" 11 March 1949
Variant title: "Latvian Lament"
Variant title: "Seek No More the Young"
"Leaving Early" 25 September 1960
"Lesbos" 18 October 1962
"A Lesson in Vengeance" 1957/early 1958
"Let the Rain Fall Gently" circa 1947-1948
"Letter in November" 11 November 1962
"Letter to a Purist" 19 November 1956
"A Life" 18 November 1960
"Little Fugue" 2 April 1962
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 Lion Tamer" 20 April 1955
Variant of: "Circus in Three Rings" 1 April 1955
"The Little New Year" 1944
"Lonely Song" with pseudonym 'Sandra Peters' circa 1949
"Lorelei" 4 July 1958
"Love Is a Parallax" circa 1954-1955
"Love Letter" 16 October 1960
"Lyonnesse" 21 October 1962
"Mad Girl's Love Song" 21 February 1953
"Magi" circa October 1960
"Magnolia Shoals" before 21 September 1959
"Main Street at Midnight" 26 June 1958
Later published as "Owl"
"Man In Black" 20? March 1959
"The Manor Garden" before 19 October 1959
"March" 10 April 1945
"March 15 Muse"
"March 21"
"marcia" circa 1954-1955
"She Will Be Always"
"Marcia and Sylvia" 1943
"Mary's Song" 19 November 1962
Variant Title: "Song of Mary"
Variant Title: "Sunday"
"Maudlin" Fall 1956
Variant title: "Mad Maudlin"
"May" 15 May 1947
"Mayflower" 21 January 1957
"Medallion" before 21 September 1959
"Medusa" 16 October 1962
Variant Title: "Mum: Medusa"
"Megrims" 20 November 1956
"Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker" Early July? 1958
"Metamorphoses of the Moon" 14 November 1954
"Metamorphosis" 18-21 April 1956
Variant title: "Faun" 18-21 April 1956
"Metaphors" 20 March 1959
"Midnight in the Mid-Atlantic" July 1960
Variant title: "On Deck"
"Midnight Snow" 1950
"Midsummer Mobile" 6 September 1954
Variant Title: "Suspend This Day" 6 September 1954
"Million Dollar Month" 12 March 1955
"Mirror" 23 October 1961
Variant Title: "Mirror Talk"
"Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper" 23-26 June 1956
"Missing Mother" circa 8 September 1947
"The Mistake" 4 March 1948
"Monarch Mind" 23 November 1956
Variant title: "Natural History" 23 November 1956
"Monologue at 3 a.m." 3 October 1956
"The Moon and the Yew Tree" 22 October 1961
"Moonrise" before 27 July 1958
"Moonsong at Morning" 6 March 1955
"Morning in the Hospital Solarium" 8 January 1955
"Morning Song" 19 February 1961
"Mornings of Mist" 19 July 1946
"Motherly Love" 1940
"The Munich Mannequins" 28 January 1963
Variant Title: "The Bald Madonnas"
"Mushrooms" 13 November 1959
"Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor" 22 May - 11 June 1958
"My Garden" 18 June 1945
"My Grandfather's Birthday" 1943
"My Grandmother" 1943
"My House" 1941
"My Mother and I" 1940
"Mystic" 1 February 1963
Variant title: "Woodcut"
"My Teaparty" 1942
"Natural History" 23 November 1956
Variant title: "Monarch Mind" 23 November 1956
"Neither Moonlight Nor Starlight" 1948-1949 (contains 'You ask me why I spend my life writing')
"The Net-Menders" before 27 July 1958
"Never Try to Know More Than You Should" circa 15 April 1953
Variant title: "Admonitions"
"Never try to trick me with a kiss" 1952-1955
"neveryou"
"New England Library" 17 May 1947
"New England Winter without Snow" 8 January 1955
"New Year on Dartmoor" circa early 1962
"Nick and the Candlestick" 29 October 1962
"The Night Dances" 4-6 November 1962
"Night Shift" Late July 1958?
Printed under the title "Poem"
"The night was dark, the earth was still", [first line]
"Not Here" circa 1950
"Notes on Zarathustra's Prologue" 6 February 1955
"Notes to a Neophyte" 12 March 1955
"November Graveyard" 9 September 1956
Variant title: "November Graveyard, Haworth"
"Obsession" 1948
"Obstacle Course" 16 September 1956
"October" 25 August 1946
"Odds and Ends"
"Ode for Ted" 20-21 April 1956
Variant title: "Poem for Pan" 20-21 April 1956
"Ode on a Bitten Plum" 1949
Published as: "Ode to a Bitten Plum"
"Ode to an Onion" 19 November 1956
"Old Ladies' Home" March? 1959
"Oh, once upon a summertime" [first line]; circa 1946-1948
"On Deck" July 1960
Variant title: "Midnight in the Mid-Atlantic"
"On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover" 6 March 1955
"On the Decline of Oracles" 22-28 March 1958
"On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad" Fall 1956
"On the Extra" 19 November 1956
"On the Futility of a Lexicon" 12 March 1955
"On the Liberty of a Lexicon"
"On the Plethora of Dryads" 24, 26 October 1956
"The Other" 2 July 1962
Variant Title: "The Other One"
Variant Title: "Mannequin"
"The Other Two" February/March? 1959
"Ouija" August 1957
"Our Poem" July 1945
"Owl" 26 June 1958
Printed under the title "Main Street at Midnight"
"P. N." 1948
"Pagan Song"
"Pan"
"Panegyric" before 3 October 1956
"Paradox" before 1950?
"Parallax" 16 April 1953
Published as "1" in "Trio of Love Songs"
"Paralytic" 29 January 1963
"Parliament Hill Fields" 11 February 1961
"Patience" 1948
"Pearls of Dew (a chant)" 1940-1943
Variant title: "Pearls of Dew"
Variant title: "Pearls of Dew (Chant)"
"Peace" in 1946-1947 diary
"A Peripatetic Sonnet (by a peripatetic Smith Girl)" before 14 April 1952
Variant title: "The Suitcases are Packed Again"
"Persecuted" 17 April 1948
"Perseus"
"Perseus: The Triumph of Wit over Suffering" 20 March 1958
"Pheasant" 7 April 1962
Variant Title: "The Pheasant"
"Pigeon Post" 8 July 1955
"Poem" ["Hear the crickets chirping" first line]; 16 May 1941
"A Poem" before 1945
"Poem for a Birthday" 22 October- 3 November 1959
"1. Who""2. Dark House""3. Maenad"
"4. The Beast""5. Flute Notes from A Reedy Pond"
"6. Witch Burning""7. The Stones"
"Poems, Potatoes" Fall? 1958
"Point Shirley" 16-17 January 1959
"Polly's Tree" 5 October 1959
"Poppies in July" 20 July 1962
"Poppies in October" 27 October 1962
"Portrait" [1948]
"Portrait D'une Jeune Fille"
"The Princess and the Goblins" 19 February 1955
"Private Ground" 25 February 1961
Variant Title: "In Frost Time"
"Prologue to Spring" 9 February 1955
"Prophet [by Rainer Maria Rilke]: Liberal Translation" circa 8 December 1954
"Prospect" Winter 1956
"Purdah" 28-29 October 1962
"Pursuit" 27-28 February 1956
"Queen Mary's Rose Garden" circa 1960-1961
"The Queen's Complaint" 18-19 April 1956
Variant title: "Complaint of the Crazed Queen"
Varient title: "Mad Queen's Song"
"Question" before 27 October 1949
"The Rabbit Catcher" 21 May 1962
Variant Title: "Snares"
"Rain" 22 May 1945
"The Rain"
"The Ravaged Face" 8-19 March 1959
"Recantation" Spring 1956
"Recess"
"Recognition" 1948
"Reflection" 1948
"Reflections at 12"
"Resolve" Fall 1956
"Reverie" November 1947
Variant title: "Nostalgia"
"Rhyme" Fall 1956
"Riddle" 1948
"Riddle" Spring 1960
See: "Words for a Nursery"
"The Rival" July 1961
"Riverside Reverie" before August 1952
Revision of: "Gone is the River"
"rondeau"
"Rondeau Redoublé" 30 January 1955
"Runaway" 9 July 1958
See: "Whiteness I Remember"
"The Scarlet Beacon" 25 August 1946
"The Scullion's Dream" circa 1952-1955
Variant title: "Triolet Frivole"
"Sculptor" Late July 1958?
"Sea Change" 7 July 1955
"Sea Symphony" 1946
"Second Winter" 8 March 1955
"A Secret" 10 October 1962
"Seek No More the Young" 11 March 1949
Variant title: "Latvian Lament"
Variant title: "Latvian Threnody"
"Sestina" 13-14 July 1955
"She Will Be Always"
Variant title: "marcia"
"Sheen & Speck" 22 October 1956
"Sheep in Fog" 2 December 1962 & 28 January 1963
Variant Title: "Fog Sheep"
"The Shrike" 3 July 1956
"A Silver Thread" 25 August 1946
"Simplicity" 25 August 1946
"Sleep in the Mojave Desert" 5 July 1960
"The Sleepers" 1948
"The Sleepers" October? 1959
"The slime of all my yesterdays" [first line]
Variant title: "April 18"
"Slow, slow, the rhythm of the moon" [first line]; 1950
"Small Hours" 21 February 1961
Variant Title: "Night Thoughts"
Variant Title: "Barren Woman"
"Snakecharmer" 22-28 March 1958
"Snow" 1940
"The Snowflake Star" 10 January 1945-21 February 1945
"The Snowman on the Moor" before 14 January 1957
"Soliloquy of the Solipsist" 18 November 1956
"Solo" after Summer 1951
"Something there was about the time" [first line]
"Song"
"Song for a Revolutionary Love" circa Spring 1955
"Song for a Summer's Day" 20 April 1956
"Song for a Thaw" 10 March 1955
"Song of a Superfluous Spring" with pseudonym 'Sandra Peters' circa 1947-1948
"Song of Eve" 8 March 1955
"Song of the Daydreamer" 1948
"Song of the Wild Geese" 1948
Variant title: "Wild Geese"
"Sonnet After Squall" 24 October 1956
"Sonnet for a Green-eyed Sailor" 12 April 1955
"Sonnet: The Suitcases are Packed Again" before 14 April 1952
Variant title: "Peripatetic Sonnet (by a Peripatetic Smith Girl)"
Published as "The Suitcases are Packed Again"
"Sonnet to a Dissembling Spring" 1 September 1951
Variant title: "Sonnet: To Spring"
Variant title: "To a Dissembling Spring"
"Sonnet to a Shade" February 27, 1955
Variant title: "Sonnet: To a Shade"
"Sonnet to Satan" 17 April 1955
"Sonnet: To Eva" before 2 November 1951
"Sonnet: To Time" before 13 November 1951
Variant title: "To Time"
"A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem" 12 April 1955
"Sorrow" 1947
"Southern Sunrise" February/March? 1959
"Sow" before 14 January 1957
"Spider" before 27 July 1958
"Spinning Song" with pseudonym 'Sandra Peters' circa 1947-1948
"Spinster" 19 October 1956
"The Spiteful Crone" 21-25 June 1956
"Spring" 1944
"Spring" 1945
"Spring Again" 1948
"The Spring Parade" 19 March 1945
"Spring Sacrament" 14 February 1955
Variant title: "April Aubade"
"Spring Song to a Housewife" circa 1952-1955
"Stars Over the Dordogne" circa Summer 1961
Variant Title: "Stars at Lacan"
"A stately pine tree silhouetted"
"Steely-Blue Crags" 25 May 1947
"Stillborn" before 29 March 1961
Variant Title: "A Book of Dead Poems"
"Stings (I)" 2 August 1962
"Stings" 6 October 1962
"The Stoic"
"Stopped Dead" 19 October 1962
"The Stranger" 1947
"The stream, from a subterranean" [first line]; November 1947
"Street Song" 4 October 1956
"Strumpet Song" 29 April 1956
"Submerged"
Referred to by Olwyn Hughes in 1970, probably "Lyonnesse"
"The sweet sickish female odor" [first line]
"Suicide Off Egg Rock" 19 February 1959
"The Suitcases are Packed Again" before 14 April 1952
"Summer Street" 1948
"The sunrise"
"The Surgeon at 2 a.m." 29 September 1961
"Suspend This Day" 6 September 1954
Variant Title: "Midsummer Mobile"
"The Swarm" 7 October 1962
Variant Title: "The Bees"
"Tale of a Tub" 20 February 1956
"Temper of Time" 1 February 1955
"Terminal" circa Spring 1955
"Thalidomide" 8 November 1962
Variant Title: "Half-Moon"
"The Thin People" Late 1957
Variant title: "The Moon was a Fat Woman Once"
"Thought"
"Thoughts" 1937
"'Three Caryatids Without a Portico' by Hugh Robus" 28 February 1955
"Three Sycamores"
Referred to by Janice Markey, 1993: 165
"Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices" circa March 1962
"Thy Kingdom Come"
"A time of clear white understanding" [first line]
"The Times Are Tidy" Fall? 1958
"Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives" 7 June 1956
"To a Jilted Lover" 8 March 1955
Variant title: "Apotheosis"
Variant title: "Apotheosis of an Avenging Lover"
"To Ariadne (Deserted by Theseus)" 10 June 1949
"To Eva" 30 November 1951; revised 20 February 1953
Variant title: "Sonnet: To Eva"
"To Eva Descending the Stair" 20 February 1953
"To Miss Cox" 15 October 1946
"To the Boy Inscrutable as God" 7 September 1954
Variant title: "Eve Describes Her Birthday Party"
"To Time" before 13 November 1951
Variant title: "Sonnet: To Time"
"Torch Song"
"Totem" 28 January 1963
"Touch-and-Go" 5 October 1956
"The Tour" 25 October 1962
"The Traveller" 27 March 1948
"The Trial of Man" 1954-1955
"Trio of Love Songs" 16-17 April 1953
Comprised of: "Parallax", "Verbal Calisthenics", and "Warning" (aka "Admonition")
"Admonition", "Verbal Calisthenics", and "Parallax"
"Triolet Frivole" circa 1952-1955
Variant title: "The Scullion's Dream"
"Tulips" 18 March 1961
"Tulips at Dawn" 1948
"Twas the Night Before Monday"
"Twelfth Night" before 11 September 1952
Variant title: "Cinderella"
"Twilight"
"Two Campers in Cloud Country (Rock Lake, Canada)" July 1960
"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" 22 March 1955
"Two Sisters of Persephone" 24 May 1956
"Two Views of a Cadaver Room" Late July 1958?
"Two Views of Withins" Summer? 1957
"Valentine: Lines to a Rich Bachelor" circa 3 May 1952
"Van Winkle's Village" 15 January 1952
"Vanity Fair" 28 October 1956
"Verbal Calisthenics" 16 April 1953
Published as "2" in "Trio of Love Songs"
"The village idiot who watched the weather" [first line?]; 8 June 1956
"Virgin in a Tree" 20 March 1958
"Virus TV or (We Don't Have a Set Either)" circa 3 May 1952
"Voices"
"Waking in Winter" circa 1960
"Wallflower" 1949-1950
"Warning" 17 April 1953
Part of "Trio of Love Songs"
Variant title: "Admonition"
"Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows" 19 February 1959
"Wayfaring at the Whitney: A Study in Sculptural Dimensions" 28 February 1955
Includes: "Daedalus and Icarus by Lindsay Daen" 28 February 1955
Includes: "Kafka by Sahl Swarz" 28 February 1955
Includes: "'Three Caryatids Without a Portico' by Hugh Robus, A study in sculptural dimensions" 28 February 1955
"We Too Have Gone Together"
"Weetamoe" 1943
"Wellfleet Beach Plums" circa 1952
"When the Stars Are Pale and Cool"
"White Girl between Yellow Curtains" 1952-1955
"White Phlox" 1949-1952
"Whiteness I Remember" 9 July 1958
Variant title: "Runaway"
"Whitsun" 14 February 1961
"Why must the slim spring rains fall now" [first line]
"Widow" 16 May 1961
"Wild Geese" 1948
Variant title: "Song of the Wild Geese"
"The Wind" 3 August 1945
"Winter Elegy"
"Winter Landscape, with Rooks" 20 February 1956
"A Winter Ship" March? 1959
"A Winter Sunset" 16 January 1946
"Winter Words" 1 February 1955
"Wintering" 9 October 1962
"A Winter's Tale" Late December 1958
"Winter Trees" 26 November 1962
Variant Title: "Trees"
Variant Title: "Trees in Winter"
"A Wish Upon a Star" 1944
"Woodcut"
See: "Mystic"
"Words" 1 February 1963
"Words Fall to Winter"
"Words for a Nursery" Spring 1960
Variant Title: "Hand Song"
Variant Title: "Rhyme for a Nursery"
Variant Title: "Riddle"
"Words heard, by accident, over the phone" 11 July 1962
"Words of Advice to an English Prof"
"Wreath for a Bridal" 17-18 May 1956
"Wuthering Heights" September 1961
Variant Title: "Withins"
Variant Title: "The Bald Truth About: Grass at Wuthering Heights"
"Yaddo: The Grand Manor" before 21 September 1959
"Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies: A Sestina for the Douanier" 27 March 1958
"Years" 16 November 1962
"You're" January/February 1960
"Youth" October 1947
"Youth's Appeal for Peace" 27 March 1948
"Zeitgeist at the Zoo" 8 July 1955
"Zoo-Keeper's Wife" 14 February 1961
Prose: Fiction
"A few armchairs..." [first line]
"About a year ago I was babysitting"
"Above the Oxbow" 17-31 May 1959
"All the Dead Dears" 22, 28 September, 20-21 October 1956
"Among the Bumblebees" Fall 1954
"Among the Shadow Throngs" 1949
"And Summer Will Not Come Again" circa Spring 1950
"The Attic View" 21 February 1948
"Aunt Rennie and the Elves" circa 1943
"The Beggars" before 15 November 1959
"The Bell Jar" Spring/Early Summer 1961
"The Big Act" 21 September 1956
"The Bird in the House" 19 July-27 September 1958
"The Birthday"
"The Black Bull" 22, 24, 26-27, 29-31 July, 2 August, & 12 September 1956
"The Bookland Carpet" circa 2 December 1944
"Brief Encounter" February 1952
Variant title: "Though Dynasties Pass"
"The Brink" 1948
"Broken Glass" 30 October 1954
"Change-About in Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen" 26 January 1958
Published as Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen
"Christmas Encounter" 2 January 1955
"The Christmas Heart" 22-23 August 1955
Variant title: "In the Mountains"
Variant title: "Gift of Love" 18 August 1955
"Coincidentally Yours" circa 1954-1955
"Dangerous Time" 4-6 August 1955
"DAR Park" 2 August 1958
"The Dark River" 1949
"The Daughters of Blossom Street" 17-31 May 1959
Variant title: "This Earth Our Hospital"
"A Day in June" circa 1949
"The Day Mr. Prescott Died" 1 & 28 January 1955
"Day of Success" 30 January-31 August 1961
"Den of Lions" circa Summer-Autumn 1950
"Dialogue" 17-18 January 1953
"Doubletake" Summer/Fall 1962
Variant title: "The Interminable Loaf"
Variant title: "Double Exposure"
"Dream Man" 30 September 1956
"East Wind" 1949
"The English Bike" circa 1950
"The Estonian" 21 October 1951
"An Evening at the Hoftizers"
"The Fabulous Roommate" 10 August 1956
"Falcon Yard"
"The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle" before 28 December 1958
"The Fifty-ninth Bear" 16 September 1959
"First Date" 1950
"From the Memoirs of a Baby Sitter" 2 December 1946
"The Garden Party"
"Gift of Love" 18 August 1955
See: "The Christmas Heart"
"Gramercy Park" 1948
"The Green Rock" circa 1949
"Hardcastle Crags" 7-8, 10, 12 September 1956
Variant title: "Afternoon in Hardcastle Crags"
"Heat" 1948
"Heather-bird's Eyebrows"
See: "Initiation"
"Hill of Leopards" 25 February 1957
"Home Is Where the Heart Is" 27 January 1955
"The Hypnotizing Husband" 24 July 1956
"I Lied for Love" 4-7 April 1953
"Initiation" 16-18 July 1952
"In the Mountains" Fall 1954
Variant title: "The Christmas Heart" 22-23 August 1955
Variant title: "Gift of Love" 28 August 1955
"In This Field We Wander Through" 1948
"The International Flavor" [1950]
"The Invisible Man" 8-10, 16, 19 October 1956
"Irene"
"The Island; a radio play" circa 18 May 1948
Co-authored by Mary Ventura
"The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit" August-September 1959
"Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" 16 December 1958
"The Latvian" 29 February 1952
"The Laundromat Affair" 9 January-18 March 1957
"Lucky Break" 15 August 1955
"The Lucky Stone" 28 November-24 December 1960
Published as "The Perfect Place"
"Marie" 4 May 1952
"Mary Jane's Passport" 23 November 1946
"Mary Ventura" circa December 1951
"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" 12 December 1952
"Marcia Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom" 27 December 1954
With "Introduction: Teen-agers Can Shape the Future"
"The Matisse Chapel" 2 February 1956
"A May Morning" 23 May 1946
"A Morning in the Agora" 30 November 1946
"The Miraculous End of Miss Minton" 10 February 1947
"Mission to Mars" 28 July 1947
"Mothers" circa October 1961-1962
"Mrs. McFague and the Corn Vase Girl" circa August 1957-July 1958
"The Mummy" 29 September-3 October 1959
"The Mummy's Tomb" 17 May 1946
"My Studio Romance" 27 March 1952
"The New Day" 3 & 5 June 1952
"The New Girl" 1950
"The New Zealand spinach was good that morning"
"The music wailed out from the radio..."
"On the Penthouse Roof" 18 May 1946
"One World" 22 March 1947
"Operation Valentine" 18 July-5 August 1957
"The Perfect Place" 28 November-24 December 1960
"The Perfect Setup" September-October 1951
"Place: A bedroom, Saturday night", in June; 1949
"Platinum Summer" 20-22 July/4, 8-10 August 1955
"The Pond in Spring" circa 14 May 1946
"A Prospect of Cornucopia" 25-28 September 1959
"Remember the Stick Man" 1, 2, 6 August, 15, 19 September 1956
"Room in the World" 7 March 1951
"Runaway" circa July 1958
"Sally" after 3 January 1949
"Sarah" 7 March 1948
"The Shadow" 31 December 1958-7 January 1959
"Shadow Girl" 1 September-13 October 1961
"Side Hall Girl" 16 February 1956
"The Smoky Blue Piano" 27-28 December 1954 & 15 January 1955
"Snow Blitz" January 1963
"Spring Song" circa 28 March 1946
"Stardust" 22 June 1946
"Star Island"
"Stone Boy with Dolphin" circa March 1958
"Suburban Nocturne" 11 November 1951
"Sunday at the Mintons" 25 March, 7-8 April 1952
"Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" 6-7 November 1954
"Sweetie Pie and the Gutter Men" 2-18 May 1959
"That Widow Mangada" 3, 5-9 August & 13 September 1956
"This Earth Our Hospital" 17-31 May 1959
Variant title: "The Daughters of Blossom Street"
"Though Dynasties Pass" February 1952
Variant title: "Brief Encounter"
"Tomorrow Begins Today" 28 January 1955
"Tongues of Stone" 28 January 1955
"The Trouble-Making Mother" 18-24 July 1957
"Two Fat Girls on Beacon Hill" circa September 1958-June 1959
"Two Gods of Alice Denway" 1952-1953 or 1954-1955
"Venus in the Seventh" 25 February 1957
"Victory" 12 November 1946
"The Visitor" 28 March 1948
"Watch My Line" circa 1947-1950
"The White Mantle Murders" circa 17-18 June 1947
"Wie Ich Einmal Mein Kleinen Bruder Neckte" 1954-1955
"A Winter's Tale" 1 September-28 December 1961
"The Wishing Box" 8, 11 October 1956
Prose: Nonfiction
"14 Colleges to Take Part in Poetry Reading Festival" before 6 May 1954
"15 Area Girls to Graduate from Smith College on June 9" before 27 May 1952
"America! America!" January 1963
"Americaine in Paris" circa 3 May 1956
Variant title: "Spring Sketching in Paris"
American Poetry Now: "Introduction" circa Autumn 1961
"An American in Paris" 15-16 April 1956
"The Arts in America: 1954. Collage by a Collegian" 28 February 1955
"As a Baby-Sitter Sees It" circa Summer-Autumn 1951
"Assembly Lineup: January 30"
"The Atomic Threat" before 26 April 1948
"Austrian-born Junior enlists in Women's Marine Corps, 'Can't wait to get there'" before 16 May 1953
"B. and K. at the Claridge" circa Spring-Summer 1956
"Beach Plum Season on Cape Cod" before 14 August 1958
"Bradford Editors Attend Boston Tea Party!!" circa January-February 1950
"Cambridge Letter" 8-9 May 1956
"Cambridge Vistas" circa 1957-1958
Published under the name Sylvia Plath Hughes
"Campaign Speech on the Tribe of Maugus" 1 January 1947
"Can Benefit By the Writing of Satirists" before 21 November 1951
"Can Rent Reproductions" before 2 October 1952
"Central Spot for Religion Groups at Smith" before 7 October 1952
"Cheers, Jeers Promised for Smith Game" before 27 October 1952
"Chrysanthemums are on Display at Smith" before 11 November 1952
"Club Report" 27 November 1946
"College Group Will Debate on February 11" before 12 December 1952
"A Comparison" circa June 1962
"Context" circa Autumn 1961
"'Crisis' Is Topic of Dr. Niebuhr In Northampton" before 6 February 1952
"Dr. A. Gesell Gives Lecture For Day School PTA" before 3 March 1952
"Drive for Hymnals at Smith College" before 13 March 1953
"Eccentricity" from What Made You Stay? interview, 14 April 1962
"Explorations Lead to Interesting Discoveries" before 19 October 1959
"Faith Groups Open Center For Students" before 6 October 1952
"First Recital at Smith College is Sunday at 8:30" 24 October 1952
"First Recital Sunday"
"Float Night at College" before 15 May 1953
"Freshman at Smith Will Meet Local Ministers" before 1 October 1952
"Freshman to Greet Pastors of Churches" before 1 October 1952
"Frost Presents Poetry Readings" before 11 April 1952
"General Jodpur's Conversion" before 10 November 1961
"Guess Where Its Heaven to be a Girl" 1955-1957
"'Heresy Hunts' Menace Liberty: Struik Claims" before 4 March 1952
"Hillel Group Plans First Social Function" before 7 November 1952
"The Ideal Summer" 17 February 1953 (written for Mademoiselle guest editor assignment)
"In Retrospect: A Plea for Moderation" circa 19 March 1951
Co-authored by Marcia Brown
"Introducin'" [write-up on Mr. Coletta, a teacher]; before 30 October 1947
"John Mason Brown Lectures on Writer's Responsibility" before 15 April 1953
"Junior High Briefs" 7 October 1946
"Kitchen of the Fig Tree" before 5 May 1959
"Landscape of Childhood" circa 28 January 1963
Original title of "Ocean 1212-W"
"Last Word on College" May-June 1953
"Laughton holds audience spellbound with readings" before 6 May 1953
"Leaves from a Cambridge Notebook" 13-15 January 1956
"Lectures Arranged by Hillel Foundation" before 17 October 1952
"Life University Second Program Slated Sunday" before 7 March 1952
"The Magic Mirror" 15 January 1955
"Many Area Students Are Among the 464 Who Will Get Smith Degrees on June 8" before 20 May 1953
"Many happy returns" [Letter]; January-February 1955
"Marxism Seeks to Replace God, Lecturer Says" before 13 March 1952
"Misery of Man is Due to His Defects" before 11 March 1952
"Miss Palmer's Treasures" before 6 February 1948
"More Than 100 Varieties of Chrysanthemums Will Be Seen at Lyman Plant House" before 11 November 1952
"Mosaics - An Afternoon of Discovery" before 12 October 1959
"Mrs. L. Diem of Cologne Visiting Smith" before 11 November 1952
"The Neilson Professor" Autumn 1954
"Newly Revised Edition of 'Smith Review' Has Articles by Students" before 12 December 1952
"Oblongs" before 18 May 1962
"Ocean 1212-W" circa 28 January 1963
Variant title: "Landscape of Childhood"
"Ogden Nash is Speaker" before 2 May 1952
"Ogden Nash's Rhyming Knack Makes Up for His Talent Lack" before 30 April 1952
"On God"
"Oregonian Originals" before 9 November 1962
"Pair of Queens" before 27 April 1962
"Passoved [sic] Will Be Marked Monday at Smith College" before 21 March 1953
"Poppy Day at Cambridge" 11 November 1956
"Poets on Campus" May-June 1953
"Rev. Dr. Roberts Will Be Vespers Speaker" before 7 March 1952
"Review of Stones of Troy by C. A. Trypanis" March 1957
"Rewards of a New England Summer" July-September 1950
"Says Capitalism May Save Asia" before 16 November 1951
"Says Music Can Illustrate Cultural Life" before 17 January 1952
"Shale that is 400,000,000 Years Old at Smith Lab" before 14 April 1953
"Sketchbook of a Spanish Summer" 3 September 1956
"Smith Christians Group Points to Achievements" before 14 May 1953
"Smith College" before 18 April 1952
"Smith College Field Events Saturday Afternoon, Night" before 15 May 1953
"Smith College Holds Clinic" 24 October 1952
"Smith College In Retrospect" 30 April-1 May 1956
"Smith College Play Delights 'Hamp Audience" before 15 May 1953
"Smith College Seder" before 21 March 1953
"Smith Events" before 2 October 1952
"Smith Girls to Take Exams in Civil Service" before 5 December 1951
"Smith Girls Will Get Chance to Jeer Faculty" before 27 October 1952
"Smith Hears Frost in Muse and Views" before 10 April 1952
"Smith Library Displaying 'Fanny Fern Collection'" before 5 May 1952
"Smith Outing Club Will Bike To Hatfield" before 15 October 1952
"Smith Provides Writing Clinic" before 9 November 1952
"Smith Review Revived" before Autumn 1953
"Smith Students Have Service of Koffee Klatch" before 20 February 1952
"Social Life Without Sororities: A Profile of Smith College" circa 13 January 1955
"Sports Clinic at Smith" 24 October 1952
"Spring Sketching in Paris" circa 3 May 1956
Variant title: "Americaine in Paris"
"Student's Prize Story Featured in Review" before 12 December 1952
"Succoth Service" before 2 October 1952
"Suffering Angel" before 7 December 1962
"Summer Band Concert" 10 September 1952
"Sylvia Plath Tours the Stores and Forecasts May Week Fashions" 21-22 May 1956
"Tea with Olive Higgins-Prouty" 19 July 1955
"'True Health' Lecture Topic At The College" before 14 December 1951
[Unattributed article], The Campus Cat; May 1952.
"Universal Faith Has the Answer, Dr. Niebuhr Says" before 5 February 1952
"Varied Religions and Cultural Program Planned For Smith College Students" before 17 October 1952
"Visiting the Home Rooms: Room 5 - Miss Sullivan" [unattributed].
"A Walk to Withens" before 6 June 1959
"Wardrobe for Six Weeks in Europe" circa 1955
"Watching the Water-Voles" after 3 May 1959
"Week-End Dance" before 7 November 1952
"Youth's Appeal for Peace" 27 March 1948
Co-authored by Perry Norton