What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of the year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE AGES WITH A SMILE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS MIDSUMMER FROST (1) by ISAAC ROSENBERG MEMOIR OF A PROUD BOY by CARL SANDBURG ALL GOATS by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME by ROBERT HERRICK FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE by ALEXANDER POPE |