 His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack ! our friend is gone. Close up his eyes : tie up his chin : Step from the corpse, and let him in That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face at...  Poems - Page 194by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1833 - 484 pages
...Old year, we'll dearly rue for you. What is it we can do for you — Speak out before you die. VI. His face is growing sharp and thin, Alack ! our friend...That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new &ce at the door, my friend, A new face at the... | |
 | Literature - 1833 - 488 pages
...Old year, we'll dearly rue for you. What is it we can do for you — Speak out before you die. VI. His face is growing sharp and thin, Alack ! our friend...his chin : Step from the corpse, and let him in That atandeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...Step from the corpse ! and let him in, Who standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door ! There's a new foot on the floor, my friend ! And a new face at the door, my friend ! A new face at the door !" Tennyson. Then the healih we drank to thirty-eight, let us drink to thirty-nine ! May it be a year... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...we '11 dearly rue for you ; What is it we can do for you 1 — Speak out before you die. DECEMBER. His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack ! our friend...face at the door, my friend, A new face at the door." THE END. PHIN11D BY SAMUEL BENTLKY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. " A DAY IN THE WOODS." OPINIONS OF... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...old year and ringing in the new express much the same nuture of feeling, and so does the poet's — ' His face is growing sharp and thin, Alack ! our friend...corpse, and let him in, That standeth there alone There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, A new face at the door.' In Lord Tennyson it is an allegory,... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...New Year, blithe and bold, my friend ! Comes up, lo lake his own ! ***** Alack ! old friend ! thou'rt gone ! Close up his eyes ! Tie up his chin ! Step from the corpse ! and let him in, Who standeth there alone, And waitelh at the door ! There's a new foot on the floor, my friend ! And... | |
 | 1840 - 326 pages
...you die ; OJd year we'll dearly rue for yon. What is it we can do for you? Speak out before you die. His face is growing sharp and thin— Alack ! our...That standeth there alone. And waiteth at the door. Thete's a new foot on the floor, my fri«ld. And a new face at the door, my friend, A new face at the... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...you die. His face is growing sharp and thin — Alaok ! our friend is gone. Close up his eyes : lie up his chin : Step from the corpse and let him in...That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face at the door, my friend, A new face at the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...die. Old year, we'll dearly rue for you : What is it we can do for you 1 Speak out before you die. His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack ! our friend...That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face at the door, my friend, A new face at the... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...die. Old year, we'll dearly rue for you. What is it we can do for you ? — Speak out before you die ! His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack ! our friend...: tie up his chin : Step from the corpse, and let Aim in Thatstandeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend,... | |
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