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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW YEAR'S EVE, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poet's Biography
First Line: With a bottle and a friend
Last Line: Making wondrous merry.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine
First Line: With a bottle and a friend
Last Line: Making wondrous merry.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Holidays; New Year; Wine
With a bottle and friend—
Friend is Tom and bottle sherry—
I shall now begin and end
This brief space where two years blend,
Wondrous wise and merry.
Never yet was such a woe
That had not a pleasure pressing
Close upon its heels; and so
Through the Old and New we go,
Each at some time blessing.
Though the Old Year brought to me
Little joy and much of sorrow,
In the New I hope to be
Happier; my joys, you see,
Always come—to-morrow.
So, as New Year's Eve doth end,
Tom, and I, and golden sherry—
Finest wine and oldest friend—
Kill the space where two years blend
Making wondrous merry.
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