 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...die: We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the new year, blithe and bold,... | |
 | Literature - 1833 - 488 pages
...die with you, Old year, if you must die. IV. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quibs are o'er. To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post-baste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for hi* own. The night is starry and cold, my friend,... | |
 | 1833 - 484 pages
...must die. IV. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quibs are o'er. To see him die, aeróse the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New year blithe and bold, my... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...We did so laugh and cry with you, I "ve half a mind to die with you, Old Year, if you must die. IV. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he Ml be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year... | |
 | 1839 - 914 pages
...! And though hia eyea are now so dim, And though his foes spoke ill of him, He was a friend to me ! He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er ; To aee him die, across the waste, His son and heir hath rid, post haste,— But he was dead, before !... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you Old year, if you must die. I Hs was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...die, across the waste, His son and heir doth ride post haste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for bis own ; The night is starry and cold, my friend,... | |
 | 1840 - 326 pages
...did so laugh and eiy with you, I've half a mind to die with you Old year, if you must die. I He waa full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, acroes the waste, His son and heir doth ride post haste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year blithe and bold, my... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - Christmas - 1845 - 436 pages
...die. We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and. jest, But all his merry quips...heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before ! Every one for his own ! The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year, blithe and bold,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I Ve half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips...the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he 'll be dead before. Every one for his own. The night is starry and cold, my friend, And the New-year... | |
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He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before. 
