Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON MY WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON


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First Line: Here's a happy new year! But with reason
Last Line: He'll visit you in hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Castlereagh, Viscount


HERE'S a happy new year! but with reason,
I beg you'll permit me to say --
Wish me many returns of the season,
But as few as you please of the day.

I send you an epitaph for Castlereagh: --

POSTERITY will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this;
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, ...

Another for Pitt: --

WITH death doom'd to grapple,
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel
Now lies in the Abbey.

The gods seem to have made me poetical this day: --

IN digging up your bones, Tom Paine,
Will. Cobbett has done well:
You visit him on earth again,
He'll visit you in hell.





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