New Year Poems For Students and Children

New Year Eve Poems

New Year is a joyous occasion, which is celebrated around the world with great fervour and excitement. The festive association is associated with new beginnings and fresh attitudes. People look forward to the coming year, harbouring hopes and aspirations for a better future. At the same time, the occasion makes you feel nostalgic, remembering events of the past year, and simply takes you down the memory lane. There are some poems that beautifully capture this feeling of nostalgia and also encapsulate the brightening hopes the coming year brings with it. Below given is some soulful poetry for New Year’s Eve, which will inspire you to reflect on the bygone and be positive about the coming Year.

Best New Year’s Eve Poems:

Let us all gather round and cheer,
With a drink of wine or an ice cold beer 
Perhaps you’re like me and don’t drink the swill,
Or your like my grandparents who live on pills. 
Maybe this world seems harsh at times,
Or its just that most of us just like to whine. 
I’d say that this is a great place to be,
It all depends on how we can see. 
True we’ve had bad things in the past,
But we know in our hearts that these will not last. 
If we try our best to be simple and pure,
There’s nothing our hopes and dreams cannot cure. 
So, I don’t know the value this is worth,
But lets all try to be happy and heal Mother Earth! 
Happy New Year!

~ Anonymous

Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow: 
The year is going, let him go; 

~ Lord Tennyson

And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury –
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

~ Thomas Hood

There are only two things now, 
The great black night scooped out 
And this fire-glow. 
This fire-glow, the core, 
And we the two ripe pips 
That are held in store. 
Listen, the darkness rings 
As it circulates round our fire. 
Take off your things. 
Your shoulders, your bruised throat! 
Your breasts, your nakedness! 
This fiery coat! 
As the darkness flickers and dips, 
As the firelight falls and leaps 
From your feet to your lips!

~ D. H. Lawrence

Another full-or bed year hath waned to-day, 
And set in the irrevocable past, 
And headlong whirled long Time’s winged blast 
My fluttering rose of youth is borne away: 
Ah rose once crimson with the blood of May, 
A honeyed haunt where bees would break their fast, 
I watch thy scattering petals flee aghast, 
And all the flickering rose-lights turning grey. 

Poor fool of life! plagued ever with thy vain 
Regrets and futile longings! were the years 
Not cups o’erbrimming still with gall and tears? 
Let go thy puny personal joy and pain! 
If youth with all its brief hope disappears, 
To deathless hope we must be born again.

~ Mathilde Blind