Best Villanelles
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						"A Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					35 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko -  1 comment 
											
						
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					34 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko -  1 comment 
											
						
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					32 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					31 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko -  1 comment 
											
						
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Villanelle After a Burial" by Steven Cramer
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					29 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Villanelle for an Anniversary" by Seamus Heaney
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					22 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Villanelle" by W.H. Auden
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					19 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Wouldst thou not be content to die" by Sir Edmund William Gosse
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					10 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko -  1 comment 
											
						
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Theocritus: A Villanelle" by Oscar Wilde
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					9 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko -  1 comment 
											
						
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
					
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						"Villanelle for DGB" by Marilyn Hacker
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					8 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"Broken Dangerfield Newby Villanelle" by Terrance Hayes
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					6 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field" by Richard Hugo
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					5 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views" by Maxine Kumin
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					4 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"Admonitions" by Sylvia Plath
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					3 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"Villanelle: The Psychological Hour" by Ezra Pound
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					1 point - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"The Best Is Good Enough" by James Whitcomb Riley
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					1 point - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"Doomsday" by Sylvia Plath
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					0 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"On a Line from Valery" by Carolyn Kizer
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					0 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"Spilled" by Bruce Bennet
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					-3 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
			
				
                                        
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						"The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
						
 
					
						
					
				 
				
					-5 points - added 16 years ago by danielleblasko - 
					
					
						 
					
				 
				
				
		   		
	   		 
		 
			
                        
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