The Colossus
| dc.contributor | Butler, Chris |
| dc.contributor.author | Plath, Sylvia |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:59Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:59Z |
| dc.date.created | 1960 |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-03-12 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1633 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1633 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1633 |
| dc.description.abstract | SGML-tagged version of Text 111 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data A unspecified offline |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | OTA Licence. This item may not be redistributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.title | The Colossus |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 80858 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<Text id=PlaColo>
<Author>Plath, Sylvia</Author>
<Title>The Colossus</Title>
<Edition>London: Faber and Faber, 1972</Edition>
<Date>1955-1959</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>PlaColo9</locdoc><milestone n=9>
<div0><div0.title>The Manor Garden</div0.title>
<div1 type=stanza n=1>
<l>The fountains are dry and the roses over.</l>
<l>Incense of death. Your day approaches.</l>
<l>The pears fatten like little buddhas.</l>
<l>A blue mist is dragging the lake.</l>
</div1><div1 type=stanza n=2>
<l>You move through the era of fishes,</l>
<l>The smug centuries of the pig--</l>
<l>Head, toe and finger</l>
<l>Come clear of the shadow. History</l>
</div1><div1 type=stanza n=3>
<l>Nourishes these broken flutings,</l>
<l>These crowns of acanthus,</l>
<l>And the crow settles her garments.</l>
<l>You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,</l>
</div1><div1 type=stanza n=4>
<l>Two suicides, the family wolves,</l>
<l>Hours of blackness. Some hard stars</l>
<l>Already yellow the heavens.</l>
<l>The spider on its own . . .
