Every New Year's Eve, the same stanzas resurface. "Ring Out, Wild Bells" by Alfred Tennyson is arguably the most famous poem about endings and beginnings ever written in English.
"Ring Out, Wild Bells" is a poem of eight stanzas, each beginning with "Ring out" or "Ring in." The structure creates a call-and-response between what must be left behind and what must be welcomed.
The poem appears in Tennyson's masterwork In Memoriam A.H.H. , a vast elegy written over 17 years following the death of his closest friend.