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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 | |||
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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CUP OF TREMBLINGS by JOHN HOLLANDER VINTAGE ABSENCE by JOHN HOLLANDER SENT WITH A BOTTLE OF BURGUNDY FOR A BIRTHDAY by JOHN HOLLANDER TO A CIVIL SERVANT by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG WINE by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT THE GOOD FELLOW by ALEXANDER BROME WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN |
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