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Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

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Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry Edit Report Content Ignore User Add to New List Add to list Sylvia Plath Follow Lady Lazarus I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—— A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin 0 my enemy. Do I terrify?—— The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like t

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