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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW YEAR Matches Found: 524 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism 1-JAN-73, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If caledars are made of square holes, something Last Line: Between the year and the year, where zero is Subject(s): Holidays; New Year 1/1/1973, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Good morning, sun! %good morning, new year! Last Line: All you, party members, %good morning from the bottom of my heart! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Poetry And Poets 2-JAN-78, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor and his children are shoveling snow Last Line: I don't much like fish, and don't care what I catch Subject(s): Holidays; New Year 5666-NEW YEAR-1905, by JACOB KLEIN Poem Text First Line: From old to new, with broadening sweep Last Line: Held by the hand of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Rosh Hashanah; Judaism A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by AGNES GILES NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Lord, I will dress thy shrine with garlands gay Last Line: For those whom thou and I, dear lord, hold dear. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Night; Prayer; Nativity, The; Bedtime A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A happy new year! Oh such may it be Last Line: Then joyously enter thy happy new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All robed in ethereal whiteness Last Line: Look forth on a happy new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A happy new year' it will be -- if it's new Last Line: Nothing old, all things new, in the happy new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New mercies, new blessings, new light on the way Last Line: All this be the joy of thy new life in christ! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE QUEEN, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou great commandress, that dost move Last Line: The water, earth, and air inspire. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW START, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I will start anew this morning with a higher, fairer creed" Last Line: "I will cease to preach your duty, and be more concerned with mine" Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;resolutions A NEW YEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Over the threshold a gallant newcomer Last Line: To be worthy our master and worthy of you Subject(s): Holidays;new Year A NEW YEAR, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a clean year Last Line: For you! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! A new white world Last Line: And pure as snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want a new year. New things are not patched Last Line: To thine eternity forever new. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR GREETING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark, the new year bells are pealing Last Line: Start the new year well today! Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight A NEW YEAR THOUGHT, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Finis' is writ: a book away is laid Last Line: Alas, that I should still unpractised be! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S BURDEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the grass sweet airs are blown Last Line: The love once ours, but ours long hours ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year A NEW YEAR'S CAROL, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, awake! The world is young Last Line: The silent pools of light and truth. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phantasmal fears Last Line: To pale europe; and tiredly the pines intone. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War A NEW YEAR'S GIFT SUNG TO KING CHARLES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today old janus opens the new year Last Line: Tis he, 'tis he, etc. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO BRIAN LORD BISHOP OF SARUM UPON THE AUTHOR'S ENTYERING INTO HOLY ORDERS, 1638, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the village reverence doth lie hid Last Line: They do receive; but you, sir, make the gift. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; New Year A NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO THE KING, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back, old janus, and survey Last Line: In his blest reign the temple door. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holidays; New Year; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A NEW YEAR'S GREETING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The century numbers fourscore years Last Line: Down to their mates blow! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S HOPE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not hope that in this dawning year Last Line: I still may courage have to struggle on. Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Valor; Bravery; Optimism A NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consuming fire! Eternal love! Last Line: Thy will be done! Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE, by BLANCHE EDENS CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: As I look all around me and wonder Last Line: Living the new year, day by day. Subject(s): Christianity; Holidays; Leadership; New Year A NEW YEAR'S PLAINT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells that lift their yawning Last Line: "but take the ""welcome"" from your door." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO LEAVE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome! Thrice welcome! To the year 1893 Last Line: And leave dundee some early day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Holidays; New Year; Parting A NEW YEAR'S SACRIFICE; TO LUCINDA, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those that can give, open their hands this day Last Line: Behold the blaze of thy immortal name. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S SYMPHONY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: To rise at morn as blythe as little child Last Line: Fill in my task another happy year! Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Symphonies; Joy; Delight; Concerts A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once again in wintry ways Last Line: Yet once again! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NEW YEAR'S THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: What does the new year hold in store for me Last Line: And take what comes, conformable to plan. Subject(s): Future; Holidays; Life Change Events; New Year; Time A NEW YEAR'S TIME AT WILLARDS'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's old man willards; an' his Last Line: "an' s'repty's good enough fer you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Auctions; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The A NEW-YEAR ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice twelve times have the springs of years refilled Last Line: One heart benign, one soul supreme, one conquering name. Subject(s): Death; God; Holidays; Life; New Year; Dead, The A NEW-YEARES GIFT SENT TO SIR SIMEON STEWART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No newes of navies burnt at seas Last Line: Frolick the full twelve holy-dayes. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A PLEA FOR THE OLD YEAR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the smiling new year climb the heights Last Line: Now his strong conqueror, the new, appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR, by LAURA F. ARMITAGE Poem Text First Line: O year that is going, take with you Last Line: And more love that is true love indeed. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Prayer A PSALM FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A friend stands at the door Last Line: Where there are neither days nor months nor years. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A RECIPE FOR A GOOD YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take a month of praise, and a month of prayer Last Line: Will come a glorious year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay Last Line: One parting strain, and then away. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the cause, and the blood that feeds it! Last Line: Worthy who did what we could! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What graven words shall mark as mine Last Line: Is love that's neither bought nor sold. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SONG FOR THE SINGLE TABLE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye single folks all, that adorn this gay table Last Line: Derry down &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People A SONG ON NEW-YEAR'S DAY BEFORE THE KING, CAR. 2, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My trembling song! Awake! Arise! Last Line: Hosannah, hallelujah to th' almighty king! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A SPEED OF HISTORY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One brilliantly cold alberta day Subject(s): New Year; Time; Canada; Canadians A VOW FOR NEW YEAR'S, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every hour and every minute Last Line: That comes a model new year's day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A WAY TO A HAPPY NEW YEAR, by ROBERT BREWSTER BEATTIE Poem Text First Line: To leave the old with a burst of song Last Line: Is to have and to give a happy new year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A WISH - TO THE NEW YEAR, 1705, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Janus! Great leader of the rolling year Last Line: And cease to love in vain, and be a wretch no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Melancholy; New Year; Wishes; Dejection ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON MAKE PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER LOGUE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Achilles went to make amends Last Line: Pax, agamemnon.' and agamemnon's: 'pax' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AFTER A JOURNEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost Last Line: Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year; Nostalgia AFTER AKIKO-- YORU NO CHO NI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your frost white kimono Last Line: Your wind blown hair and you cry, %'the first snow!' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow AGE AND SONG (TO BARRY CORNWALL), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain men tell us time can alter Last Line: That lives in light above men's lives. Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Time; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] AGEISM, by BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH Poem Source First Line: I am an old scribe Last Line: Whose millennium are you? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 15. NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We heard the bells of midnight burying the year Last Line: Was born of us anew, to be immortal love. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AMORETTI: 62, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary year his race now having run Last Line: And chaunge old yeares annoy to new delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): New Year AN OLD YEAR'S ADDRESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have twankled the strings of the twinkering rain Last Line: He had fuzzled and fazzled and fizzled away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ANOTHER YEAR, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The years turn Last Line: They are heading %home Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time ANOTHER YEAR, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year is dawning! Last Line: Another year for thee! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Prayer ANOTHER YEAR COME, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have nothing new to ask of you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year ANOTHER YEAR COME, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have nothing new to ask of you Last Line: And the hands of the clock still knock without entering Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year APPLE-HOWLING' VERSE FOR NEW YEAR'E EVE; SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stand fast root, bear well top Last Line: Hats full, caps full, %full quarter sacks full Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As naught gives way to aught Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As naught gives way to aught Last Line: I give way to you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AS THE NEW YEAR [18 B.C.] DAWNED, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O postumus, alas! I hear the bells go / tinkle-tinkle! Last Line: Shall spill upon your marble floors the wine he will inherit. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AT DAWN OF THE YEAR, by GEORGIANA KLINGLE HOLMES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Move on with a will, nor dream thou back Alternate Author Name(s): Klingle, George Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our songs went up and out the chimney Last Line: "albeit the fault may not be thine." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: Plunging through on a funeral gale Last Line: Ere you will kiss mine eyes again? Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; New Year; Sea; Soul; Ocean AT THE NEW YEAR, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shape of this night, in the still fall Subject(s): New Year; Relationships; Re;igion AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth in thy turn,' said the lord of Last Line: And the angels in heaven heard him, and lifted a paean of praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AT THE YEAR'S END, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed with a crimson sunrise beauty Last Line: The old hope's light! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Socialism AT THE YEAR'S END, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night dreams of day, and winter seems Last Line: Shall vanish when our own are true. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Holidays; New Year AULD LANG SYNE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot Last Line: For auld lang syne. Variant Title(s): The Goal Of Life;auld Lang Syne (with Music) Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Reunions BARBARIAN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after the days and the seasons, and the creatures and the countries Last Line: The arctic caverns. %the banner Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEACH SCENE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I saw mum as a child of six playing Last Line: Where are your bombs, your dynamite, your tanks?' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEFORE OR AFTER, by DOROTHY NIMMO Poem Source First Line: I like to get there early when the cleaning Last Line: To push their way up through the tarmac Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEGIN A YEAR TO-DAY!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On new year's day you started in Last Line: Stoutly begin a year to-day! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BEGINNING A NEW YEAR MEANS, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: Taking off Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BELL HILL, by JULIA FIELDS Poem Source First Line: Out of the doors Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BELLS O' NEW YEAR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To the rhythm of the breeze Last Line: And monarchs, too, are small. Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; New Year BEYOND TIME, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Time can never beat us down Last Line: All that time proposes. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene. Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BONDS, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There are owls in the garden and a dog barking Last Line: I could enter the dark bed of silence like a bride Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BOTANY, by ROBERT MINHINNICK Poem Source First Line: All I know is, we were there together Last Line: The orchid that grows in the place where you lay Subject(s): Holidays; New Year BOWL OF PEAS, by THOMAS MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: A bowl of freshly depodded peas Last Line: Over me, tracking roundly, taking it all in Subject(s): Holidays; New Year CALCIUM, by DERYN REES JONES Poem Source First Line: Because I love the very bones of you Last Line: The permanence of snow Subject(s): Holidays; New Year CHINESE NEW YEAR, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dragon is in the street dancing beneath windows Last Line: He brings me ghost money Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): New Year; Conduct Of Life CHINESE NEW YEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sugar and fruit for the kitchen god Subject(s): Holidays; New Year CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying. Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence CUTTY SARK, by PETE MORGAN Poem Source First Line: She has always sailed from Last Line: Our dis-united kingdom %bumps and yaws Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DANCE, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Even the white-packed sand Last Line: And time that will erase their epitaph Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DANCING WITH AUNT JANEY, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey, in a tight black dress on new year's day Last Line: And anointed my brow Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing And Dancers; Holidays; New Year DE, by VALERIE BLOOM Poem Source First Line: De snow, de sleet, de lack o'heart Last Line: De wintertime, %december Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEATH THE LEVELLER, FR. THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glories of our blood and state / are shadows, not substantial things Last Line: Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. Variant Title(s): Calchas's Song;death The Conqueror;earth's Victories;of Death;the King Of Kings;song: No Armour Against Fate;blood And State;a Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Death; Holidays; New Year; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The DECEMBER 31ST, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the hammering there Last Line: Cruelty, harlotry. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, by EDWARD LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Language is the fire we burn the past in Last Line: Here is a hearth. I am useless, but we sit together Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEMETER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where I lived - winter and hard earth Last Line: With the small shy mouth of a new moon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEMETER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I lived - winter and hard earth Last Line: With the small shy mouth of a new moon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEMON AT THE WALLS OF TIME, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ran and ran. I was so fresh and fuelled Last Line: I'll read the writing on the wall. You'll see Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DEPARTURE: NEW YEAR, by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight: the sky breaks open, the prying apart Last Line: There is a sense of a field, %but no field Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DIRGE FOR THE YEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orphan hours, the year is dead Last Line: Follow with may's fairest flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DONAL OG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion EAST WIND BLOWS WARMLY AROUND THE MAGNIFICENT HALL IN SPRING, by HUANG YUANJIE Poem Source Last Line: As beautiful women congregate to perform a new year's play Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Plays And Playwrights ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 34. MUTABILITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From low to high doth dissolution climb Last Line: Or the unimaginable touch of time. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence ECHOES: 25, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year that's come and gone, love, his flying feather Last Line: We shall light our lamp, and wait life's mysterious morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics; Dead, The; Barbecues EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock Last Line: I had not thought that it would be like this Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics ELECTRIC SLIDE BOOGIE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year's day 1:16 am Last Line: Hard hard it is to sleep %in the middle of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 6. THE NEW YEAR, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is winter and the new year Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; New Year ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 6. THE NEW YEAR, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is winter and the new year Last Line: Because it is winter and the new year Subject(s): Fathers; Holidays; New Year ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For lords or kings I dinna mourn Last Line: As muckle better as you can. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENCOUNTER, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENCOUNTER, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn Last Line: I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder Subject(s): Holidays; New Year END OF THE YEAR 1912, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were here at his young beginning Last Line: Once, while six bells swung thereto. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENDS MEET, by FRANCES BELLERBY Poem Source First Line: My grandmother came down the steps into the garden Last Line: And there isn't at mine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year EPISTLE TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS RUTLAND, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / whilst that for which all virtue now is sold Last Line: My best of wishes, may you bear a son. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sidney, Elizabeth. Countess Of Rutland EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YEAR'S VERSES FOR 1825, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the 'universal yankee nation' Last Line: And boast of such a sight in after years. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; United States; America EXTRACTS FROM VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1823, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where streams of light, in golden showers Last Line: And breathe in liberty again. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FAITHFUL PROMISES; NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing at the portal Last Line: Never pass away! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FAREWELL AND HAIL!, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Old year, going, take with you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FIRST FOOT, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One....Two....Three....Four.... Last Line: Come in, dear friend, peace be with you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FIRST JANUARY WALK, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been out walking Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOLKTALE, by PAULA MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: A young man falls in love with truth and searches the wide world Last Line: Condition: you must tell them that I am young and that I am beautiful Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Last Line: But that is how things are: I am your mother, %and we are kind to snails Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR A NEW CENTURY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The authors have been winnowed Last Line: Even slouching towards the site Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1698, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music now thy charms display Last Line: Happy, happy, past expressing. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Heroism; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1874, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From glory unto glory!' be this our joyous song Last Line: Until his very presence crown our happiest new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR 1777, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again imperial winter's sway Last Line: And our great cement be—the public good. Subject(s): Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Finality; Great Britain - Rulers; Holidays; New Year FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1732, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light! Last Line: And joins the joy that crowns the day. Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Holidays; New Year FOR THE LADY OLIVIA PORTER; A PRESENT UPON NEW YEARS DAY, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Hunt the whiter ermine! And present Last Line: Give oftener what is heard of than received. Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 1, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nineteen long centuries to-day Last Line: New heavens and new earth! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 2, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new age comes, I hear its hidden wings Last Line: Ascend, soar upward in the new-born light. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW CENTURY: 3. AN ODE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for the new year Last Line: Sound trumpets! Sound a peal for this the glad new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rid forever of them and me Last Line: Hunger, despair, a common grief Variant Title(s): For The New Year (1 Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR, by CAROLINE MAXWELL LEE Poem Text First Line: The turn of the year Last Line: Of devotion. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you sheltered, curled up and content by your world's warm fire? Last Line: Out to some battle. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From something in the trees Last Line: Of doing nothing right Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From something in the trees Last Line: Of doing nothing right Subject(s): Holidays; New Year FOR THE NEW YEAR 1716, by NICHOLAS ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, glorious rising year Last Line: For thee thy people all, for thee the year is blest.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Wars With France; Holidays; New Year; Odes (as Poetic Form) FOR THE NEW YEAR 1731, by COLLEY CIBBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the ever-circling sun Last Line: Hail, etc. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Great Britain - Rulers; Happiness; Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Peace; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR THE NEW YEAR 1806, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ardent zeal for virtuous fame Last Line: And heroes, yet unborn, shall britain owe to thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Trafalgar, Battle Of FORGIVEN - EVEN UNTIL NOW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast forgiven - even until now Last Line: We see our pardoning lord; forgiven until then! Subject(s): Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form); New Year FOURTH DAY, by AKI-NO-BO Poem Source First Line: The fourth day Last Line: To leave the world? Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year FRANCISCA MADRE; NEW YEAR, 1907, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What cheer, francisco madre, what of cheer Last Line: There's a cheer, francisca madre, there is cheer. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Happiness; Holidays; Memory; New Year; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Joy; Delight FULL MOON SHINES ON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Attend you with gifts of joy Subject(s): China; Holidays; New Year; Time GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow has ceased its fluttering flight Last Line: "failure!"" at last." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Resolutions GOOD RIDDANCE, BUT NOW WHAT?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come childten, gather round my knee Last Line: Duck! Here comes another year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GOOD-BYE, OLD YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Good-bye, old year! For you and we must part Last Line: Our prayers to him above. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Holidays; Love; New Year; Prayer; Separation; Isolation; Paradise GOOD-NIGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, sweet year, that brought to me Last Line: And all the shadows flee away. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GRATITUDE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: For sunlit hours and visions clear Last Line: We thank the keeper of our years. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year GREETING THE YEAR 2000, WITH RESPECT, by JANINE POMMY VEGA Poem Source First Line: Glancing back at the millennium we are leaving Last Line: And the dragon in the stars Subject(s): 2000 A.d.; Holidays; New Year HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Carve the name of the year you live in on your heart Last Line: Alas! Alas! No brotherhood was there. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Holidays; New Year HER NEWS, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: You paused for a moment and I heard you smoking Last Line: Congratulations,' I said. 'when's it due?' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HER YEARS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years come and go, each bringing in his train Last Line: And makes her new years old, ere yet begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time HERE SHE COMES, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HERE WE COME A-WHISTLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holidays; New Year HOST, by ROY FISHER Poem Source First Line: This memory, never mind what it is Last Line: Vampire memory, quietly feeding off me Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light Last Line: The fruit bat swings on its branch, a tongueless bell Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year HOW LAUGHTER MADE CLOCK SMILE, by JOHN AGARD Poem Source First Line: To make clock smile Last Line: Have you any idea of the time? %clock chuckled Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HOW THE NEW YEAR CAME ABOUT, by DEBORAH EGE OLDS Poem Text First Line: On one side the curtain the new year was standing Last Line: She mounted the throne and he passed into rhyme. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year HYMN TO THE SUN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light of the world, and ruler of the year Last Line: And touch thy lyre, and shoot thy beams no more. Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Light; New Year; Sun; Time; War; Heroes; Heroines I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I leave to forgive me Subject(s): New Year I AM RUNNING INTO A NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I beg what I love and %I leave to forgive me Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Holidays; Maturity; New Year I PACK MY TRUNK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I pack up to carry Last Line: From the old year to the new. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year IF I COULD TELL YOU, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time will say nothing but I told you so Last Line: If I could tell you I would let you know Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): But I Can' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time IN HOSPITAL: 17. INTERLUDE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, the fun, the fun and frolic Last Line: New year comes but once a twelvemonth. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Holidays; Hospitals; New Year IN HOSPITAL: POONA (1), by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I did not fight for sleep Last Line: But love survives the venom of the snake Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Soldiers' Writings IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky Last Line: Ring in the christ that is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The New Year;the Old Year And The New Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: In my father's house, for as long as I remember, beer Last Line: It's hot. I helped myself to what I knew would not be offered, %in my father's house Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Holidays; New Year; Parties INVITATION TO A NEW YEAR, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Glassed in, here at the edge Last Line: Let's clear the path Subject(s): Holidays; New Year IRONING, by VICKI FEAVER Poem Source First Line: I used to iron everything Last Line: My arms, breasts, lungs, heart into Subject(s): Holidays; New Year IT'S ABOUT TIME, by RITA ANN HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: One day a car pulled up Last Line: You've got the right time, but you're in the wrong place.' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year JANUARY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pause beside this door Last Line: "for lo! I am the door." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year JANUARY ONE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Said jan to feb Subject(s): Holidays; New Year JAUNTY, by MARTINA EVANS Poem Source First Line: Light strikes the clock! Last Line: Kissing my feet, %and jaunty Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LAMENT FOR THE MAKARIS [WHEN HE WAS SEIK], by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that in heill [or, heal] was and glaidness [or, gladness]. Last Line: Timor mortis conturbat me. Variant Title(s): Dunbar's Lament When He Was Sick;the Fear Of Death Confounds Me;timor Mortis Conturbat Me Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Dead, The; Bereavement LARRY NOOLAN'S NEW YEAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be-gorrie, al wor sorry Last Line: When the ould year died. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties LAST DAY OF THE YEAR (NEW YEAR'S EVE), by ANNETTE FREIIN VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Source First Line: The year at its turn Last Line: My arms, and from my drouth %beg mercy. Dead is the year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas Last Line: Gave it again to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting LIGHT, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: At the big house new year's eve karaoke Last Line: And the rush begins once again. %belfast, winter 1994 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Holidays; Light; New Year; Women LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John woke on jan. First and felt queer Last Line: And it certainly wasn't the beer Subject(s): Food & Eating;holidays;new Year LINES FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JULIE CARR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the light, how it offers itself Last Line: Stories set in funerals abd airplanes / together Subject(s): New Year LINES FOR THE NEW YEAR, by TONY TOWLE Poem Source First Line: The first day of january is the first day Last Line: Action is certainly the order of the day, and action never had %a better interpreter than the skillf Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LINES WRITTEN AT NIGHT DURING INSOMNIA, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't sleep; no light burns Last Line: I seek a meaning in you Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LINES WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, ye who thro' this round of eighty years Last Line: "to bow the head, and say, ""thy will be done." Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Holidays; New Year LINES WRITTEN ON THE BIRTH OF THE YEAR 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Infant year, fresh from the womb of time Last Line: This gift be yours, to crown the new-born year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Holidays; New Year; Time LIVE IN THE PRESENT, by SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget the past and live the present hour Last Line: Who conquers now shall rule the coming years. Variant Title(s): Now Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Holidays; New Year LONG ROOM GALLERY, by JULIE O'CALLAGHAN Poem Source First Line: There is nothing to breathe Last Line: Baseball caps, chewing gum, videos Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MAGNIFICAT, by MICHELE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Oh this man %what a meal he made of me Last Line: And nuzzling each other in the smelly fold Subject(s): Erotic Love; Holidays; New Year MAKING FRIENDS, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN Poem Text First Line: The fine art of forming friendships Last Line: Ev'ry day a glad new year. Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The MAL, by HENRY GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Leaving you early I went through the horses Last Line: No. And again no. And again no Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER Poem Text First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MASTECTOMY POEMS: 6. DECEMBER 31, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say this year no different Last Line: Well and happy %new year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MATER DOLOROSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside Last Line: And the soul of man and her soul and the world's be one. Subject(s): Dawn; Holidays; New Year; Soul; Time; Sunrise MAYTIME IN MIDWINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new year gleams on us, tearful Last Line: And life, through love of you, love. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness MEADOWSWEET, by KATHLEEN JAMIE Poem Source First Line: So they buried her, and turned home Last Line: Of dirt, and spit, and poetry Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MEMORABILIA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, did you once see shelley plain, / and did he stop and speak to you Last Line: Well, I forget the rest. Variant Title(s): Shelley;something To Remember Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Writing & Writers MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MESSAGE OF THE BELLS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: I looked upon the dreary waste Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MIDNIGHT, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: After waiting up Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MIDNIGHT MASS FOR THE DYING YEAR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the year is growing old Last Line: Christe, eleyson! Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The MIDNIGHT SHOW, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year is done, the last act of the vaudeville Subject(s): New Year MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the basement Last Line: At the turn of the century Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year MORE LASTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the book that speaks with undying tongue Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MUTABILITY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flower that smiles today Last Line: Then wake to weep. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence MY DAUGHTER AND RAY DAVIES, by MATTHEW SWEENEY Poem Source First Line: She's going out again to that pub in muswell hill Last Line: Knocking back the cider to his whisky and beer Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MY DREAM OF THE NEW YEAR, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the waning hours of moments Last Line: Brightening up my glad new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): Faith; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Belief; Creed; Optimism MY FATHER'S FATHER'S FATHER, by MONIZA ALVI Poem Source First Line: In this city I have aged thousands of years Last Line: Have brilliant purple flowers Subject(s): Holidays; New Year MY NEW YEAR'S GUESTS, by ROLLIN MALLORY DAGGETT Poem Text First Line: The winds come cold from the southward, with incense of fir and pine Last Line: "long life to the hearts still beating, and peace to the hearts at rest!" Subject(s): Guests; Holidays; New Year; Visiting NEW LEAF, by KATHLEEN WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Another year is dawning! Last Line: Do better, now, my child Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water NEW YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy %by sam Last Line: Walks toward an ocean %of days Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The stream of time glides ever swiftly by Last Line: This glad refrain; a happy, bright new year! Subject(s): Calendar; Holidays; New Year; Time NEW YEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Last Line: In the branches of the chestnuts that are gone Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year NEW YEAR, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each year cometh with all his days Last Line: Of prayer, the king becomes your slave. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was the one man I met up in the woods Last Line: While I strode by and he turned to raking leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: Across the life-path of our destiny Last Line: To perfect day. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism NEW YEAR, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: After christmas Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR (2), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over our heads the words hung down Last Line: Wonderful dies. Subject(s): Calendars; Holidays; New Year; Time NEW YEAR CARD, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greeting dear friend, through shower and sun Last Line: Still, greeting all the same dear friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR CAROL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here we bring new water Last Line: And the bugles that do shine Variant Title(s): The New Year Subject(s): Holidays;new Year NEW YEAR DAY - TO MRS. DUNLOP, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day time winds th' exhausted chain Last Line: Yourself, you wait your bright reward. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR DITTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year met me somewhat sad Last Line: My rugged way to heaven, please god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR HYMN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, blessed saviour Last Line: Crown our bright new-year! Subject(s): Holidays; Hymns (as Literary Form); New Year NEW YEAR HYMN, by JOSEPH KRAUSKOPF Poem Text First Line: Gone another year- / gone beyond recall Last Line: May erasure need. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Judaism NEW YEAR OF YELLOW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: The american bag and burlap company on the north side of Last Line: Me and the american bag and burlap building on bergen Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR ON DARTMOOR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is newness : every little tawdry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): New Year; Babies; Infants NEW YEAR POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The short afternoon ends, and the year is over Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The NEW YEAR POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The short afternoon ends, and the year is over Last Line: Us who need you, and are affected by your fortune; %us you should love and to whom you should give y Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR RESOLVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the dead year is clasped by a dead december Last Line: The wan, worn face of the bruised old world. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courage; Future; Holidays; New Year; Valor; Bravery NEW YEAR SONG, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say that the year is old and gray Last Line: Comes merrily in to-morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We climb the hill; the mist conceals Last Line: Your longed-for flower of liberty? Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Socialism NEW YEAR'S, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the year wears its facein the moon Subject(s): New Year; Love NEW YEAR'S 1965 AT AUNT JANEY'S, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: A hog's head Last Line: Girl, you oughta be shot.' Subject(s): Aunts; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S 1990, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Joanne's husband was on pan am flight 103 Last Line: And at the turn of the decade write new poems %while you lie breathing Subject(s): Fireworks; Gratitude; Holidays; New Year; Psychoanalysis; Relationships NEW YEAR'S ADVICE FROM MY CORNISH GRANDMOTHER, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On new year's eve, at your front door Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S BIRDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on new year's morning Last Line: They will sing to you! Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S CHIMES, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song the stars sing? Last Line: (rung all in rhyme.) Subject(s): Bells; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the horns wear thin Last Line: Dizzy and sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: January is a soft, white month Last Line: And I have my hand on my son, my son Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, thou best and brightest morning! Last Line: But in thy fairest eyes find two for one. Variant Title(s): Hymn For New Year's Day Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This trade that we ply with the pen Last Line: Drinc hael! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine NEW YEAR'S DAY, by HATTORI RANSETSU Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tell their tales Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is it: the night they've all selected Subject(s): New Year; Winter NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ELIZABETH MARY LITTLE Poem Source First Line: The storm-wind sank, the moon rode high Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Lizzie M. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born Last Line: The child is born in blood, o child of blood Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, be good to england. Bid her name Last Line: 01/01/89 Subject(s): England; Holidays; New Year; Time; English NEW YEAR'S DAY SONG; PEMBROKE DOCK, WALES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise up a new year's mornin' Last Line: Two or three ha'pence, if you please, %to buy some ink and paper Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On new year's eve, a season without hours, you sent Last Line: And the wooden city's tower departed with a tall shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a bottle and a friend Last Line: Making wondrous merry. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine NEW YEAR'S EVE, by BEATRIZ BADIKIAN Poem Source First Line: He is my ajax who brings me Last Line: Trusting laughter all around us Subject(s): Children; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another full-orbed year hath waned to-day Last Line: To deathless hope we must be born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow came with dusk, building itself on windows Last Line: Steel guitars played auld lang syne on oaho Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow came with dusk, building itself on windows Last Line: And one more number chanhed inside the mind Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The club is filling, tables draped with linen Last Line: I'd have one girl take all the flaming decades %and burn them to cinders with her clear blue eyes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: The night our mothers Last Line: Before the new year dawned Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fireworks; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, thou calm and beautiful night Last Line: "new things are ever the best!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Peace NEW YEAR'S EVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have finished another year,' said god Last Line: In his unweeting way. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of the year fell chilly Last Line: And I left them there at their altars %ringing their own dead knells Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here glad, glad of my comfort and so somber Last Line: With the helplessness of the newborn. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Solitude; Wind; Loneliness NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy drunkard Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy drunkard Last Line: Nobody knows my love the falcon Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no change upon the air Last Line: My heart is its own grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not that they bring us labour, pain, and care Last Line: Friendships, achievements, deeds, a beckoning host. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year; Parties NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight the years last day the last Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight the years last day the last Last Line: Drift and doom were the loves we lovered Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PHAM THI TUYET BONG Poem Source First Line: I knew the firecrackers would explode like this tonight Last Line: These moments burn through me, leave behind their searing red ashes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's cruel cold on the waterfront, silent and dark and drear Last Line: "you darned old dirty hobo. . .My god! Here, boys! He's dead!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The old year is almost gone Last Line: My bookmark heavy %as an ironing board Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other night I had a dream, most clear Last Line: My hand could feel your hand was warm, warm, warm! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Dreams; Holidays; Memory; New Year; Nightmares NEW YEAR'S EVE, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Spring has just come, the year's about to end Last Line: Plum blossoms fill my sight as I gaze at them, all smiles Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE - MIDNIGHT, by FREDERIKA RICHARDSON MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: The dead year is lying at me Last Line: Powerful alone my own soul's truth to keep. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE 1959, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the way we used to party Last Line: How they could jive Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) NEW YEAR'S EVE IN ANGKOR WAT, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: As if envious of the gods Last Line: Was he the enemy? Is he, too, %another god? Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE ON BROADWAY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, what are we seeking this new year's eve Last Line: But a bursting blossom of life. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE WASSAILING SONG; GLOUCESTERSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wassail! Wassail! All over the town Last Line: But if you do bring us a bowl of the small, %then down fall butler, bowl and all Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH AGING PARENTS, by G. W. CLIFT Poem Source First Line: This time of year my habit says that I Last Line: Claims our focus, this homely holiday Subject(s): Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Parents NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1850, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the midnight of the century, - hark Last Line: Yet by one sun is every orbit bent. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1913, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, cartmel bells ring soft to-night Last Line: The cartmel bells no more. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1938, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight the years last day the last Last Line: To sallys name or perhaps another Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVE: OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Every one on franklin street Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S EVES, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in marrakech, no - boys Last Line: "anyone."" and he said, ""that wouldn't be nice." Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Parties; Joy; Delight NEW YEAR'S GIFT FOR BEC, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Returning janus now prepares Last Line: And so take all upon your back Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S GIFT FOR THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How few can be of grandeur Last Line: His friends are more, his honors less. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S GREETING, by ELEANOR B. CLAUSEN Poem Text First Line: Across the frozen spaces Last Line: Each day. Subject(s): Growth; Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S HYMN, by MATTHIAS JOCHUMSSON Poem Text First Line: What message bears the new year sun? Last Line: O living god, we pray thee, hear. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S JOURNEY, by JOHN RIDLAND Poem Source First Line: The new year lives a long way off Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this day Last Line: From this day!' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 10, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One year less Last Line: Faithful and true. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 11, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord thy god Last Line: The lord thy god! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 12, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The future! Who may lift the veil Last Line: It shall be as the master saith. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 13, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now thy loving spirit Last Line: Keep us thine alone! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 14, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as the world giveth Last Line: That pass not away. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 15, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This new year thou givest me Last Line: And fill my life with praise. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 16, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright new year, and a sunny track Last Line: This is my new year's wish for you! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 17, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year for jesus Last Line: O fellow-worker true? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 18, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the work difficult Last Line: He will be with thee! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 19, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy, because he loves thee Last Line: Thus may thy new year be! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord hath done great things for thee Last Line: Fear not, be glad, rejoice! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 20, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the weariest day Last Line: May christ be thy all! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 3. WONDROUS GRACE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrously / the lord hath dealt with thee! Last Line: Wondrous love from hour to hour. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown the year with thy goodness, lord Last Line: As the crystal mountain-rills. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Prayer NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward the rising of the sun Last Line: Fruitful, fair, and glad for thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of patient toil Last Line: Thy god himself shall be. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praising together for all the way Last Line: Hoping together for rest above. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity with jesus Last Line: For him whom we love best! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S MOTTOES: 9, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, keep our dear one Last Line: To guide and cheer. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S NIGHT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now you are mine, to-night at last I say it Last Line: I have won my renown Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S NURSERY JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the rhymes of all the climes Last Line: The golden age of now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Rhyme NEW YEAR'S POEM, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle Subject(s): New Year NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: I'll junk a lot of feelings Last Line: Cans and wills and oughts. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a month ago to-day Last Line: For, ——— me, I'll not swear. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Promises; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes NEW YEAR'S SEASON AND ITS POETASTERS, by TRAN TE XU'ONG Poem Source First Line: You don't find so many of them on regular days, in normal months Last Line: So now they excrete these wordly things Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S THOUGHTS, by LILLIAN GRAY Poem Text First Line: Let us walk softly, friends Last Line: And may god guide us, friend. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S VERSES FOR THE CARRIER OF THE MIRROR, 1826, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The carrier is a poor old man Last Line: How should such hour be blessed. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S WISHES, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old year is dead, and from its ashes blossoms bright Last Line: Love the world -- wish it well -- but away from humankind. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S WISHES (1), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pearl-strewn pathway of untold gladness Last Line: As heaven to earth come down. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR'S WISHES (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I wish thee Last Line: A happy new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEW YEAR, GOOD-MORNING!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: New year, good - morning! Come and bring Last Line: New year, good-morning! Subject(s): Day; Happiness; Holidays; Morning; New Year; Winter; Joy; Delight NEW YORK IN 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two years have elapsed since the verse of s.W. Last Line: Be what I now wish you—a happy new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842) NEWMAN'S ADDRESS (1786), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eighty-five discharg'd and gone Last Line: And now, our toils reward Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Newspapers; Writing And Writers NEXT MAY, by T. K. WHIPPLE Poem Text First Line: Next may the cherry-blossoms bright Last Line: Live on in hearts of other men! Subject(s): Holidays; May (month); New Year NO SIGN, by AKI-NO-BO Poem Source First Line: No sign Last Line: That it will soon be gone Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year NOT A 'MADE-OVER' YEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Edward wears a coat of blue Last Line: Is the new year truly new. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When voices of children are heard on the green Last Line: And your winter and night in disguise. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Play; Time; Childhood ODE TO THE DEPARTING YEAR, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who sweepest the wild harp of time Last Line: God's image, sister of the seraphim. Subject(s): Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia; Holidays; New Year; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians ODE UPON THE NEW YEAR (1693), by NAHUM TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The happy, happy year is born Last Line: And britain's cæsar light'ning in the chase. Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Joy; Delight ODE: ON THE NEW YEAR, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of my life! Inspire my song Last Line: The bleeding traitor from my breast. Subject(s): Blessings; Holidays; Life; New Year OFFHAND COMPOSITIONS: NEW YEAR'S EVE 1774, by HUANG JING-REN Poem Source First Line: Laughter and talk in a thousand homes Last Line: Wastefully spending the heart's strength %to be a poet Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Holidays; New Year; Poetry And Poets OH CALENDAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: To see Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD ENEMY, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God is a super-director Last Line: Anything to get away from time Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD MAN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have grown old Last Line: And why people have so many lice. %ha-ya-ya-ya Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD POEM: 14, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "cold, cold the year draws to its end" Last Line: My falling tears wet the double gates Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);holidays;new Year OLD YEAR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight old year must die Last Line: The dead year, that has slipped away and gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Holidays; New Year OLD YEAR, GOOD-NIGHT!, by ALEXANDER MACLEAN Poem Text First Line: Old year, good - night! A faithful friend Last Line: Old year, good-night! Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Night; Belief; Creed; Bedtime ON HIS BEING [OR, HAVING] ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth Last Line: As ever in my great task-master's eye. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 7;on Reaching Twenty-three;on His Birthday;on Reaching Age 23;how Soon Hath Time Subject(s): Aging; Ambition; Holidays; New Year ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three ships come sailing by Last Line: On new year's day in the morning Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1640: TO THE KING, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, great sir, the sun shines here Last Line: Who cannot wish. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ON THE CIRCUMSISION: NEW YEARS DAY, by LUKE WADDING Poem Source First Line: This first day of the year Last Line: No other new years gift %doth he require from us Alternate Author Name(s): Waddinge, Luke Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ON THE NEW YEAR, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past: - another year for ever gone Last Line: And lead my soul to peace—to bliss—to thee! Subject(s): Greetings; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Joy; Delight ON THE THRESHOLD, by ASTLEY H. BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Ring out, o bells! Ring silver sweet o'er hill and moor and fell! Last Line: That god may gracious be to us in this the bright new year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PATIENCE, by ALAN JENKINS Poem Source First Line: If I think of my grandmother's house, I think of these Last Line: But I did not want them to leave me, and I have not gone Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where nowadays the battery lies Last Line: To breakfast at his bouwery. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - Dutch Period; Patriotism; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672); United States - Dutch Settlements PHOENIX PARK VESPERS, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: A man hiking the roads or tramping the streets Last Line: To be swallowed up for ever in the womb of time Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PHOTOGRAPH AND WHITE TULIPS, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A little nearer please. And a little nearer Last Line: In that little black coffin now carrying us Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PINDARIC ODE: TO THE NEW YEAR, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great janus, who dost sure my mistress view Last Line: They feel least cold and pain who plunge at once into it. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year POEM FOR A NEW YEAR, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that a reign of terror struck dumb Subject(s): Love; Winter; New Year POLITICAL SONG FOR THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of the year begins Last Line: Sing to the moon, for every change is known Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Politics & Government; Socialism POSTMERIDIAN, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the morning has cut the sediment of night Last Line: We'll find out what really happened Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ALLEN WEBSTER JOSLIN Poem Text First Line: As before thee, god Last Line: When I wake to face anew the day. Subject(s): God; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Prayer PROLOGUE FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No song nor dance I bring from yon great city Last Line: Believe our glowing bosoms truly feel it. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PROMISES, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On new year's eve the snow came down Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PROSIT NEUJAHR, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be the new year sweet and short Last Line: Prosit neujahr! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Toasts PUT BACK THOSE WHISKERS, I KNOW YOU, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one fault I must find with the twentieth century Last Line: But if you are a true new year I can shout happy true new year everybody! Quicker than little sir ec Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RECONSECRATION, by DOROTHY GOULD Poem Source First Line: God of our lives, o hear our prayers Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RESOLUTION, by MYRONN HARDY Poem Source First Line: Into an empty plastic lard bucket Last Line: New year's day my love. %new year's day Subject(s): Change; Holidays; New Year RESOLUTION, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new year brings the old resolve Last Line: Of the years, that constitute %for the beholder the true human pain Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year REVENANTS, by SEAN O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: It's four o'clock, an autumn sunday Last Line: In which we buried you Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RILKE SAYS THE NEW YEAR BRINGS THINGS THAT HAVE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even a dog is never lost in the same place Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) RING, JOYFUL BELLS!, by VIOLET FULLER Poem Source First Line: Ring, bells, from every lofty height! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women ROOM IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO COME DOWN ALIVE FROM, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source Last Line: Enjoying the tranquillity of cold Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SEEING SANTA FE AT NEW YEAR, by CYNTHIA HOGUE Poem Source First Line: Evening burnishes the sangre de cristos Last Line: In language so fresh %we cannot imagine Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Tourists; West (u.s.) SHISHU BHOLANATH (1922): REMEMBERING, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember my mother Last Line: Long ago she used to hold me on her lap %and look at my face. %that's the look she has left %in all Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SHOES OF DEAD COMRADES, by JACKIE KAY Poem Source First Line: On my father's feet are the shoes of dead comrades Last Line: The brown and black leather of all the dead comrades Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SHORING UP THE HEART, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: New year's eve resolves to new year's day Last Line: Until the air and I can make you warm Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Parties SILENCE, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose it was always there, the strangeness Last Line: What we know will not be handed on. %conticuere omnes Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SITTING UP WITH MY WIFE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HSU CHUN-CH'IEN Poem Source First Line: So many delights the excitement has no end Last Line: No wonder the pins weigh heavy in your hair - %we've waited up so long for dawn light to come! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SLOW BREATHERS, by JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT Poem Source Last Line: Synthesis of long, long ago Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SMALL TALK AT NEW YEAR'S, by L. N. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: So how's the family? The old friends you've seen? Last Line: And may I never get this drunk again Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SNOW SOLACE, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: A clean wind ushers the new year in Last Line: A newly-made bridal shroud. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Snow; Winter SO MANY ZEROS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many zeros %ending with smoke Subject(s): Arabs; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; New Year; Palestine SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big Last Line: Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year SOLOMON GRUNDY, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: Born on monday and a tiny Last Line: And he began to speak, with his words singing Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SON-DAYS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright shadows of true rest! Some shoots of bliss Last Line: Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Son-dayes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sabbath; Sunday SONG, by TOM LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yi surta %keep trynti avoid it thats Last Line: Cookn oil nwi need %potatoes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG AT THE YEAR'S TURNING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shelley dreamed it. Now the dream decays Last Line: The new grass shall purge you in its flame Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG FOR A YEAR, by SADIE FULLER SEAGRAVE Poem Text First Line: Wrapped in silver and gold Last Line: Or another song to sing? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG FOR THE NEW YEAR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old time has turned another page Last Line: And a prayer for those who love us. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG OF THE NEW YEAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the bells at midnight Last Line: "will in peace be ushered in." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; Holidays; New Year SONG OF THE OLD YEAR, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I have been running a gallant career Last Line: And bury me under the green holly-tree. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SONG OF THE SON, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pour, o pour that parting soul in song Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; New Year; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs SONG OF THE SON, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pour, o pour that parting soul in song Last Line: Caroling softly souls of slavery Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; New Year; Slavery SONNET: 12, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I do count the clock that tells the time Last Line: Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Variant Title(s): The Approach Of Age Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Time SONNET: 64, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I have seen by time's fell hand defac'd Last Line: But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Variant Title(s): Time And Love Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year SONNET: ONE NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart! Art thou dead within me? Why this calm Last Line: Thy very self of self that suffered? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SORTING THROUGH, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: The moment she died, my mother's dance dresses Last Line: Like all that life that will not neatly end Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE; A CHILDREN'S SONG - NEW YEAR'S WATER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here we bring new water from the well so clear Last Line: Sing reign of fair maid, with gold upon her chin, %open you the east door, and let the new year in Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not death that harrows us,' they lipped Last Line: Until the new-year's dawn strode up the air. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Sorrow; Sadness SPINDLEBERRY SONG, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Winter: endure and wait Last Line: Hangs the heart-shaped seed-carapace Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement SRUTI, by SUJATA BHATT Poem Source First Line: You, who first said sruti Last Line: To return to the world that you once heard Subject(s): Holidays; New Year STANLEY WARE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as sinks the new year's sun Last Line: Hours celestial — stanley ware! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE NEW YEAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood between the meeting years Last Line: "for happiness dwells there!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Holidays; New Year STONE HARE, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Think of it waiting three hundred million years Last Line: The stems of sea-lilies slowly turned to stone Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SUDDEN LIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been here before Last Line: And day and night yield one delight once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Deja Vu; Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year SUNSET AND MOONRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's Last Line: All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour. Subject(s): Death; Evening; Holidays; Moon; New Year; Night; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There all the barrel-hoops are knit Last Line: There all the planets drop in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 4. THERE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There all the barrel-hoops are knit Last Line: There all the planets drop in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE BAMBOO, THE PLUM AND THE PINE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere in this land they must be found Last Line: To the new year three-in-one, the bamboo, the plum and the pine. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Worship; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHILD AND THE YEAR, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the child to the youthful year Last Line: "o child! And crown thee a king!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE CHRISTIAN'S NEW YEAR PRAYER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou christ of mine, thy gracious ear low bending Last Line: This is a christian's prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Holidays; Jesus Christ; New Year; Prayer; Soul; Paradise THE CLOSING YEAR, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chimneys no more music hold Last Line: The year is at the close! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE CURTAIN FALLS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the sorrow and over the bliss Last Line: Silently downward the curtain falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Healing; Holidays; New Year; Cures THE DAWNING O' THE YEAR, by MARY (MAY) ELIZABETH (MCGRATH) BLAKE Poem Text First Line: All ye who love the springtime - and who but loves it well Last Line: Till ye meet it in old ireland in the dawning o' the year! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year! Thy latest sobbing breath Last Line: What thou hast shown, perhaps but to destroy? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full knee-deep lies the winter snow Last Line: A new face at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys THE ELECTRIC SLIDE BOOGIE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year's day 1:16 am Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE FIRST MORNING OF 1860, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: One evening 'mid the summer flown Last Line: Peace to endow the new-born year. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE GLAD NEW YEAR, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK Poem Text First Line: There's coming a year all mirth and joy Last Line: Are you that happy, glad new year? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE GOOD-MORROW, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Last Line: Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. Subject(s): Holidays; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; New Year; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Variant Title(s): Donal Og Subject(s): Grief;holidays;love;love - Loss Of;new Year; Sorrow;sadness THE HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5660, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chaos lay beneath god's hand Last Line: Will bless you in your works and ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Memory; New Year; Peace; Judaism THE LAST OF THE NEW YEAR'S CALLERS, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door is shut-I think the fine old face Last Line: In front of the old-time door that's shut. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE LITTLE NEW YEAR'S COME TO STAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Stay new and bright and full of cheer Subject(s): New Year THE MASTECTOMY POEMS: 6. DECEMBER 31, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say this year no different Last Line: Well and happy / new year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE MESSAGE OF THE NEW YEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I asked the new year for some message Last Line: God's will to love Subject(s): Holidays;new Year THE MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the basement Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The; Relatives THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known rivers Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE NEW YEAR, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes dancing over the snow Last Line: He is the wonderful glad new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Variant Title(s): The Glad New Year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by LILLIAN GARD Poem Text First Line: Standing with folded wings of mystery Last Line: And we—we pause a little while to pray! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by HORATIO NELSON POWERS Poem Text First Line: A flower unblown: a book unread Last Line: Beyond tomorrow's mystic gates. Variant Title(s): The Year Ahead Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock struck twelve in the tall church tower Last Line: Which the wise are swift to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Greetings; Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by J. DICKEY TEMPLETON Poem Text First Line: I am the new year, and I come to you pure and unstained Last Line: All that I ask—you keep the faith unbroken! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a tower in the wet Last Line: And new year blowing and roaring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): "1865-1866;""i Stood On A Tower In The Wet""; Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE NEW YEAR, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fleetly hath passed the year; the seasons came Last Line: Have praises for the well-completed year. Variant Title(s): January 1, 1828 Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two together, babe and year Last Line: Brother year was gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Babies; Holidays; New Year; Infants THE NEW YEAR DAWNS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new year dawns -- the sun shines strong and clear Last Line: My new year dawns not till thy face I see. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF A MISERABLE MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: In the lone stillness of the new year's light Last Line: Of thy departed youth, -- it never will return! Variant Title(s): The Young Parson's Dream Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF AN UNHAPPY MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it was the new year's night Last Line: The golden years can never more return. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Old Age; Sin; Youth THE NEW YEAR'S QUEST, by HARRIET ALLEYNE RICE Poem Text First Line: Another milestone passed along the road Last Line: Take up the endless life in a new birth. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Wellesley College THE NEW YEAR: TO MR. W.T., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The cock crows, and yon bright star Last Line: Till the next year she face about. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW YEAR; ADDRESSED TO PATRONS OF PENNSYLAVNIA FREEMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave is breaking on the shore Last Line: A new and happy year. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Holidays; New Year; Antislavery Movement - United States THE NEW YEERE'S GIFT, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others look for pearle and gold Last Line: The richest new-yeeres gift to me. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE NEW-YEAR MINE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every year's a hidden mine Last Line: Or only dust and ashes? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell old year, farewell old year Subject(s): New Year THE OLD YEAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was going down; the empty trees shook, sighing Last Line: Remaining. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old year's gone away Last Line: Left the old year lost to all. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The THE OLD YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O good old year! This night's your last Last Line: I see your cab is waiting. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Good night, old year, good night! Last Line: And wait god's will with patience till the end. Subject(s): Farewell; Future; Holidays; New Year; Past; Parting THE OLD YEAR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infirm and aged, doth he sit Last Line: And through it comes the glad new year. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the old year? 'tis a book Last Line: Close it and lay it in god's hand. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one in sorrow looks upon Last Line: As happy as the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Future; God; Holidays; Laughter; New Year THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift they go Last Line: And the stranger's face makes the friend's forgot. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by, old year! I can but say Last Line: "for much, I ween, they have yet to do!" Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, by WILLIAM CLEAVER WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: Last night at twelve, amid the knee-deep snows Last Line: O blithe young year, but keep thy promise true! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Time THE OLD YEAR TO THE NEW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The snows of death are drifting deep Last Line: Save the long legacy of sleep! Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year THE OLD YEAR'S BLESSING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fading from you Last Line: While he crowns my past. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Disease; Future; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Past; Temptation; Joy; Delight THE PASSING OF THE YEAR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My glass is filled, my pipe is lit Last Line: There! Bless you now! Old year, good-bye! Subject(s): Change; Holidays; New Year THE PAST AND COMING YEAR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wave of an awful torrent, thronging down Last Line: Its last and faintest echo. Fare thee well! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 24, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new year ends a year of sorrow Last Line: Who can sleep past dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Holidays; New Year; Spring THE PROCESSION, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray year drifted out Last Line: Die on a winter's day. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE SUNFLOWER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah sun-flower! Weary of time Last Line: Where my sun-flower wishes to go. Variant Title(s): Ah Sunflower Subject(s): Bible; Holidays; Mythology; New Year; Sunflowers THE TURN OF THE YEAR, by JAMES L. PENNYPACKER Poem Text First Line: Down by the marsh the twigs of the maples are flaming Last Line: May kiss the tips of her fingers. Subject(s): Holidays; June; New Year THE TWA CORBIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was walking all alane Last Line: The wind sall blaw for evermair Variant Title(s): The Two Corbies Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;ravens;scotland;tragedy THE WAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come anthea let us two Last Line: Then to want the wake next yeare. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; New Year THE YEAR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be said in new year rhymes Last Line: And that's the burden of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Nightmares; Optimism THE YEAR IS DONE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The year is done. Upon june's tender breast Last Line: A glorious era dawns! A golden age is born! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THE YEAR THAT'S AWA', by JOHN DUNLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the year that's awa'! Last Line: May they live, etc. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year THIS YEAR - NEXT YEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This year - next year - sometime - never Last Line: Never - earth say yet Subject(s): Holidays;new Year TO A CHILD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I thee remember Last Line: "thy ""buon natale"" in my ear." Subject(s): Holidays; Longing; Memory; New Year TO AGE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, old friend! These many years Last Line: Dreads not the frost of age. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year TO ANNA ELIZA AUSTEN, by FANNY KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: This year is done Last Line: In thinking of its close? Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO CARA, ON THE DAWNING OF A NEW YEAR'S DAY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When midnight came to close the year Last Line: That hope shall shed on scenes before us! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO EDWARD CASWALL, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, o'er a clear calm pool Last Line: And see a heaven on earth. Subject(s): Caswall, Edward (1814-1878); Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had we but world enough, and time / this coyness, lady, were no crime Last Line: Stand still, yet we will make him run. Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Desire; Holidays; Love; New Year; Time TO JANUS; ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two-faced janus, god of time Last Line: I'll have youth and beauty still Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO MISS LOGAN, WITH BEATTIE'S POEMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the silent wheels of time Last Line: An edwin still to you. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO MISTRESS ANNE CECIL, by WILLIAM CECIL Poem Text First Line: As years do grow, so cares increase Last Line: You, long years; and father, health! Alternate Author Name(s): Burleigh, Lord; Burghley, 1st Baron Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear Last Line: Because the centre of it is above. Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War TO THE NEW YEAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Welcome, new year, but be more kind Last Line: I'll thank the lord the devil knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NEW YEAR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prince new year, welcome to thy throne Last Line: His kingdom falls to you. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NEW YEAR, FOR THE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give lucinda pearl nor stone Last Line: As shall crown both her and thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE NEW YEERE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich statue, double-faced Last Line: The diadem that beares. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE PENDING YEAR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have I no weapon-word for thee -- some message brief and fierce? Last Line: Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Last Line: You may forever tarry. Variant Title(s): Counsel To Girls;counsel To Virgins Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; New Year; Roses; Time; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TONIGHT AT NOON (FOR CHARLES MINGUS AND THE CLAYTON SQUARES), by ADRIAN HENRI Poem Source First Line: Tonight at noon %supermarkets will advertise 3d extra on everything Last Line: You will tell me you love me %tonight at noon Subject(s): Holidays; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); New Year TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Source First Line: Windy with january gold Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O, the rain, the weary, dreary rain Last Line: Twenty golden years ago! Subject(s): Disappointment; Holidays; New Year; Past; Time TWENTY-EIGHT AND TWENTY-NINE, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a sick man's dying sigh Last Line: I shall worship in twenty-nine! Subject(s): Holidays; Love; New Year TWO CLOCKS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the same bedroom we kept two small clocks Last Line: Maybe these clocks are a poor example Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWO CLOCKS, by SIMON ARMITAGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the same bedroom we kept two small clocks Last Line: Maybe these clocks are a poor example Subject(s): Holidays; New Year TWO HOUSES, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twill overtask a thousand men Last Line: Shut up the door till doom! Subject(s): Holidays; Houses; New Year ULTIMATE DECEMBER, by MYRA PERRINGS Poem Text First Line: The year has come so soon Last Line: Of ultimate december. Subject(s): December; Holidays; New Year UPON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winds of winter glue Last Line: Sit unafraid. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Holidays; Marriage; New Year; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON PRINCESS ELIZABETH, BORN THE NIGHT BEFORE NEW YEAR'S DAY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Astrologers say venus, the self-same star Last Line: With every year a new epiphany. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year UPON THE THRESHOLD, by G. E. Poem Text First Line: Once more we stand with half-reluctant feet Last Line: So shut the book and bid the year good-by! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VANISHING POINT, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snow crept up overnight as we slept Last Line: Though time seems to pause and wait for us at times %and measure us and move along again Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VERSES FOR NEW YEAR'S MORNING; THE ISLE OF MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Again we assemble, a merry new year Last Line: Until at the quaaltagh again we appear, %to wish you, as now, all a happy new year Subject(s): Holidays; New Year VIRGIN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sweet was the song the virgin sung Last Line: And sweetly rocked him on her knee Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WASSAIL SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here we come a-wassailing Variant Title(s): Love And Joy Come To You; The Wassailers' Caro Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year WATCHING THE NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY THROUGH THE STAIRCASE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Now midnight's here Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHAT CHEER? GOOD CHEER! BE MERRY AND GLAD THIS NEW YEAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lift up your heartes and be glad! Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holidays; New Year WHAT DOES 'EARLY' MEAN?, by MEDBH MCGUCKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy house across the road Last Line: Evoking ships and their wind-blown ways Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHAT I WAS DOING NEW YEAR'S EVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Didn't want to work the traditional jigsaw Last Line: Waited for you to come back home to me Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER SAID SHE SHOULD NEVER HAVE LEFT, by KATE CLANCHY Poem Source First Line: New zealand, land of her birth Last Line: In the grate to light a fire, later - %that shook me Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WHEN WE SEND THE OLD YEAR OFF, by YI CHONGJIN Poem Source Last Line: Soon the monk starts his door-to-door %visit to collect rice: the new year is in Subject(s): Holidays; New Year WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The WISHES TO MY SON, JOHN; FOR THIS NEW, AND ALL SUCCEEDING YEARS, 1630, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wishes may enrich my boy Last Line: My wishes crowned, in crowning thee. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Sons WITH A BARRIE BOOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old year dies, and a new is born Last Line: Lo, here's barrie! Subject(s): Books; Hate; Holidays; Laughter; Lies; Love; New Year; Reading YEAR, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Goes %skidding Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S AFTERNOON, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the moment of leisure grows deeper Last Line: You have much more, so much more, to lose.' Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S END, by EDNA FREDERIKSON Poem Text First Line: In fading fields the dawn-cold vapours roll Last Line: The gray mists rise. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S END, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: When I pause, anemones fall on the month of december Last Line: Leather orchid that shatters my soul with its dark %shudders of moonlight Subject(s): Holidays; New Year YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year Variant Title(s): At Year's End;at Yearsend;year's End Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year; Historians YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year Last Line: The new-year bells are wrangling with the snow Variant Title(s): At Year's End; At Yearsend; Year's En Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year YORKSHIRE'S NRW YEAR'S EVE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To-night it is the new year's night, to-morrow is the day Last Line: That me and my merry men may have some, %sing fellows, sing,hag-man ha! 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