Ralph,
Props to Sam! I think "The Listeners" opens very strong and kind of tails off, but still, it sure beats "The House on the Hill." For a similar poem from a similar age, I think Kipling beats either in terms of pure craft:
https://poets.org/poem/way-through-woods
This was the sort of thing the Edwardians valued, and I can't at once think of one doing it better.
But we're a long way from the villanelle.
Cheers,
John