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Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

173 songs
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2000
Album
Jan 2000
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

44 tracks

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Album
Jan 2000
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

44 tracks

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1978
Album
Jan 1978
Words for Dr. Y.

5 tracks

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Album
Jan 1978
Words for Dr. Y.

5 tracks

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1976
Album
Jan 1976
45 Mercy Street

20 tracks

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Jan 1976
45 Mercy Street

20 tracks

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1975
Album
Jan 1975
The Awful Rowing Toward God

22 tracks

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Jan 1975
The Awful Rowing Toward God

22 tracks

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1974
Album
Jan 1974
The Death Notebooks

8 tracks

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Album
Jan 1974
The Death Notebooks

8 tracks

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1972
Album
Jan 1972
The Book of Folly

11 tracks

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Jan 1972
The Book of Folly

11 tracks

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1971
Album
Jan 1971
Transformations

7 tracks

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Jan 1971
Transformations

7 tracks

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1969
Album
Jan 1969
Love Poems

11 tracks

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Album
Jan 1969
Love Poems

11 tracks

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1966
Album
Jan 1966
Live or Die

10 tracks

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Jan 1966
Live or Die

10 tracks

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1962
Album
Jan 1962
All My Pretty Ones

6 tracks

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Album
Jan 1962
All My Pretty Ones

6 tracks

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1960
Album
Apr 1960
To Bedlam and Part Way Back

11 tracks

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Album
Apr 1960
To Bedlam and Part Way Back

11 tracks

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Top Songs

#1
Flee on Your Donkey
#2
Gods
#3
Clothes
#4
Earthworm
#5
Cripples and Other Stories
#6
Buying the Whore
#7
For My Lover, Returning To His Wife
#8
Anna Who Was Mad

About Anne Sexton

Discography

Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
44 tracks · 2000
The Awful Rowing Toward God
22 tracks · 1975
45 Mercy Street
20 tracks · 1976
The Book of Folly
11 tracks · 1972
Love Poems
11 tracks · 1969
To Bedlam and Part Way Back
11 tracks · 1960
Live or Die
10 tracks · 1966
The Death Notebooks
8 tracks · 1974
Transformations
7 tracks · 1971
All My Pretty Ones
6 tracks · 1962
Words for Dr. Y.
5 tracks · 1978

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Flee on Your Donkey

Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came back last night at midnight, arriving i…

Gods

Ms. Sexton went out looking for the gods. She began looking in the sky —expecting a large white angel with a blue crotch. No one. She looked…

Clothes

Put on a clean shirt before you die, some Russian said. Nothing with drool, please, no egg spots, no blood, no sweat, no sperm. You want me …

Earthworm

Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep you are reworking their soil, you have a grocery store there down under the earth and it is well …

Cripples and Other Stories

My doctor, the comedian I called you every time and made you laugh yourself when I wrote this silly rhyme... Each time I give lectures or ga…

Buying the Whore

You are the roast beef I have purchased and I stuff you with my very own onion. You are a boat I have rented by the hour and I steer you wit…

For My Lover, Returning To His Wife

She is all there. She was melted carefully down for you and cast up from your childhood, cast up from your one hundred favorite aggies. She …

Anna Who Was Mad

Anna who was mad, I have a knife in my armpit. When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages. Am I some sort of infection? Did I make you go ins…

Consorting with Angels

I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of the cosmetics and the silks. Ther…

August 17th

Surely I will be disquieted by the hospital, that body zone- bodies wrapped in elastic bands, bodies cased in wood or used like telephones, …

Discography at a glance

173

Songs on Lyrks

11

Albums

18

Singles

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Popular tracks by Anne Sexton include Flee on Your Donkey, Gods, Clothes, Earthworm, Cripples and Other Stories. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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