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Author: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Ariel
Crossing the Water
The Moon and the Yew Tree

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics

A smile fell in the grass. Irretrievable! (from Ariel) *
M. Altena: The night dances
P. Lambro: The Night Dances
F. Ahrold: Night Dances

All night your moth-breath (from Ariel) *
E. Vercoe: Morning song

Axes after whose stroke the wood rings (from Ariel) *
F. Ahrold, N. Rorem: Words

Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people *
M. Altena: Crossing the water

Blackberrying (Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries) (from Crossing the Water) - R. Buckle *
By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me (from Ariel) *
N. Rorem: The Hanging Man

Crossing the water (Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people) - M. Altena *
Daddy (You do not do, you do not do) (from Ariel) - P. Lambro *
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts (from Ariel) *
N. Rorem: Poppies in October

First, are you our sort of a person *
J. Mitchell, P. Lambro: The Applicant

From "The Moon and the Yew Tree" (The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right) (from The Moon and the Yew Tree) - B. Rands *
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions (from Crossing the Water) *
E. Vercoe, P. Lambro: Mirror

I have done it again (from Ariel) *
N. Rorem: Lady Lazarus

Lady Lazarus (I have done it again) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem *
Little poppies, little hell flames (from Ariel) *
N. Rorem: Poppies in July

Love set you going like a fat gold watch *
J. Mitchell: Morning Song

Mirror (I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions ) (from Crossing the Water) - E. Vercoe, P. Lambro *
Morning Song (Love set you going like a fat gold watch) - J. Mitchell *
Morning song (All night your moth-breath ) (from Ariel) - E. Vercoe *
Night Dances (A smile fell in the grass. Irretrievable! ) (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold *
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries (from Crossing the Water) *
R. Buckle: Blackberrying

Poppies in July (Little poppies, little hell flames) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem *
Poppies in October (Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem *
Sheep in Fog (The hills step off into whiteness ) (from Ariel) - J. Mitchell, F. Ahrold *
The Applicant (First, are you our sort of a person) - J. Mitchell, P. Lambro *
The Couriers (The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf) - J. Mitchell *
The Hanging Man (By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me ) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem *
The hills step off into whiteness (from Ariel) *
M. Altena: Sheep in fog
J. Mitchell, F. Ahrold: Sheep in Fog

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right (from The Moon and the Yew Tree) *
B. Rands: From "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

The night dances (A smile fell in the grass. Irretrievable! ) (from Ariel) - M. Altena *
The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf *
J. Mitchell: The Couriers

Words (Axes after whose stroke the wood rings) (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold, N. Rorem *
You do not do, you do not do (from Ariel) *
P. Lambro: Daddy