The House On The Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson

"The House on the Hill" is a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson. "The House on the Hill" was first published in The Globe in September 1894.

Form
The poem is a villanelle, written in iambic tetrameter.

The poem

 * The House on the Hill

Edwin Arlington Robinson's villanelle


 * They are all gone away,
 * The House is shut and still,
 * There is nothing more to say.


 * Through broken walls and gray
 * The winds blow bleak and shrill.
 * They are all gone away.


 * Nor is there one to-day
 * To speak them good or ill:
 * There is nothing more to say.


 * Why is it then we stray
 * Around the sunken sill?
 * They are all gone away,


 * And our poor fancy-play
 * For them is wasted skill:
 * There is nothing more to say.


 * There is ruin and decay
 * In the House on the Hill:
 * They are all gone away,
 * There is nothing more to say.