Southern Sunrise

"Tale of a Tub"

Southern Sunrise written by Sylvia Plath

"Channel Crossing"

Poem composed in 1956; included as entry 6 in The Collected Poems, edited by Ted Hughes

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Southern Sunrise Color of lemon, mango, peach, These storybook villas Still dream behind Shutters, their balconies Fine as hand- Made lace, or a leaf-and-flower pen-sketch. Tilting with the winds, On arrowy stems, Pineapple-barked, A green crescent of palms Sends up its forked Firework of fronds. A quartz-clear dawn Inch by bright inch Gilds all our Avenue, And out of the blue drench Of Angels' Bay Rises the round red watermelon sun. 1956

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