Ariel Sylvia Plath

Contents (1965 version)

Poems marked with an * were not in Plath's original manuscript, but were added by Ted Hughes. Most of them date from the last few weeks of Plath's life.

  1. "Morning Song"
  2. "The Couriers"
  3. "Sheep in Fog" *
  4. "The Applicant"
  5. "Lady Lazarus"
  6. "Tulips"
  7. "Cut"
  8. "Elm"
  9. "The Night Dances"
  10. "Poppies in October"
  11. "Berck-Plage"
  12. "Ariel"
  13. "Death & Co."
  14. "Lesbos" (censored in some publications, not included in UK version)
  15. "Nick and the Candlestick"
  16. "Gulliver"
  17. "Getting There"
  18. "Medusa"
  19. "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
  20. "A Birthday Present"
  21. "Mary's Song" * (only in US version)
  22. "Letter in November"
  23. "The Rival"
  24. "Daddy"
  25. "You're"
  26. "Fever 103°"
  27. "The Bee Meeting"
  28. "The Arrival of the Bee Box"
  29. "Stings"
  30. "The Swarm"* (only in US version)
  31. "Wintering"
  32. "The Hanging Man"*
  33. "Little Fugue"*
  34. "Years"*
  35. "The Munich Mannequins"*
  36. "Totem"*
  37. "Paralytic"*
  38. "Balloons"*
  39. "Poppies in July"*
  40. "Kindness"*
  41. "Contusion"*
  42. "Edge"*
  43. "Words"*

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