Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHERE AN OLD HOUSE STOOD, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY


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WHERE AN OLD HOUSE STOOD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit on a hill where an old house stood
Last Line: Right through the old house helter-skelter.
Subject(s): Ruins


I sit on a hill where an old house stood
And not a stick or piece of wood
Is here, but four white stones in a row
Mark out a square that one might know
Where the cottage was on the low stone wall.
I look for more but that is all
To let me know where the old house stood.

Sheep in an old orchard at my feet
Crunch the grass and pitifully bleat.
A little lamb that strays and is lost
Cries among the stones like the little ghost
Of the baby who was put to sleep
In that old house. You crying sheep
Trample the lilacs and the garden there.
I watch the chimney smoke in the air
And hear a step and a woman's talk
To her husband coming up the walk.
I smell the coffee, and the bacon frying.
Hear how they hush the baby's crying.

My dog herds the sheep to the barn for shelter
Right through the old house helter-skelter.





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