Best Villanelles
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"A Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
35 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead./ ( I think I made you up inside my head.)"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 2 points
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"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
34 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Do not go gentle into that good night./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
32 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
31 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"I wake to sleep and take my waking slow./ I learn by going where I have to go."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 2 points
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"Villanelle After a Burial" by Steven Cramer
29 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Villanelle for an Anniversary" by Seamus Heaney
22 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Villanelle" by W.H. Auden
19 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Wouldst thou not be content to die" by Sir Edmund William Gosse
10 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Shalt pray in vain for leave to die/ When golden Autumn hath passed by."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"Theocritus: A Villanelle" by Oscar Wilde
9 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"O Singer of Persephone!/ Dost thou remember Sicily?"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 1 point
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"Villanelle for DGB" by Marilyn Hacker
8 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Broken Dangerfield Newby Villanelle" by Terrance Hayes
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field" by Richard Hugo
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views" by Maxine Kumin
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Admonitions" by Sylvia Plath
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Villanelle: The Psychological Hour" by Ezra Pound
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Best Is Good Enough" by James Whitcomb Riley
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Doomsday" by Sylvia Plath
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"On a Line from Valery" by Carolyn Kizer
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Spilled" by Bruce Bennet
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
-5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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