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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHERE AN OLD HOUSE STOOD, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 6. RUINS OF PAESTUM by SARA TEASDALE WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG' by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE RAVAGED VILLA by HERMAN MELVILLE HYMN AMONG THE RUINS by OCTAVIO PAZ OZYMANDIAS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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