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Sylvia Plath - Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss

Never try to trick me with a kiss
Pretending that the birds are here to stay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

A stone can masquerade where no heart is
And virgins rise where lustful Venus lay:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.

Our noble doctor claims the pain is his,
While stricken patients let him have his say;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

Each virile bachelor dreads paralysis,
The old maid in the gable cries all day:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.

The suave eternal serpents promise bliss
To mortal children longing to be gay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

Sooner or later something goes amiss;
The singing birds pack up and fly away;
So never try to trick me with a kiss:
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

Added: on December 28th, 2005 at 11:43 AM | Viewed: 11885 times | Comments and analysis of Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath Comments (4)


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Poet: Sylvia Plath
Poem: Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss

Comment 4 of 4, added on March 23rd, 2006 at 10:15 PM.

Can tell she samoan....
she like beef with the person who try trick her!
nah.....j/j.
It's probably her life....unfair-ish.
but explaining in words.....woooaahh!! O_O

still coughing *ahem* from Samoa
Comment 3 of 4, added on February 14th, 2006 at 1:26 PM.

I donīt think is a lover i think that she doesnīt wanīt to be trick by death or life I think that she believe that life wasnīt fair

sarah from Venezuela
Comment 2 of 4, added on December 28th, 2005 at 11:43 AM.

well, this poem is oviously about her love of her life walking out on her, and she doesnt kno how to take it shes confused and lost at the same time.

ameri from United States

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