<h3> <SPAN name="villanelle"></SPAN> VILLANELLE </h3>
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(Torquato Tasso from his cell at Ste. Anne, 1548)</p>
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Her beauty haunts me everywhere—<br/>
A lone lark singing as it flies—<br/>
Sweet, O sweet beyond compare.<br/></p>
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Amber and gold meet in her hair,<br/>
Dark pools and starlight in her eyes;<br/>
Her beauty haunts me everywhere.<br/></p>
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Slim body, petal soft and fair,<br/>
Cool lips, cool, cool as evening skies—<br/>
Sweet, O sweet beyond compare.<br/></p>
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Pale fingers delicate and rare,<br/>
To lull and lure caressing-wise;<br/>
Her beauty haunts me everywhere.<br/></p>
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Here in my dungeon dim and bare<br/>
The last frail not of music dies—<br/>
Sweet, O sweet beyond compare.<br/></p>
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My heart? I steeled it not to care. . . .<br/>
But God! her love is paradise!<br/>
Her beauty haunts me everywhere,<br/>
O sweet, sweet, sweet beyond compare!<br/></p>
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