4 Must-Read Poems about New Year

These poems reflect on the passing of time and the turning of a new year. They contemplate the lessons learned and the aspirations for the future.

Poets may use imagery of fireworks, celebrations, and reflections to convey the transition from one year to the next. These verses become invitations to embrace the new year’s possibilities, filled with hope, resolutions, and the promise of a fresh start.

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New Year

by Carol Ann Duffy

‘New Year’ by Duffy melds year-end nostalgia with the ache for a lost love, weaving hope into the fabric of longing.

Set against the backdrop of New Year celebrations, this poem is uncharacteristically solemn for a text associated with the event. Acknowledging the importance of spending New Year's Eve with one's lover as they beckon in the New Year together, the speaker laments the absence of their partner. The speaker casts off the weight of the year past and looks towards the future, ending with the realisation that perhaps their love is misguided, but their love will remain eternal as the couple were perfect together at one point in time.

Out of the space around me, standing here, I shape

your absent body against mine. You touch me as the giving air.

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New Day’s Lyric

by Amanda Gorman

‘New Day’s Lyric’ by Amanda Gorman is poem written at the end of 2021 in order to usher in a more hopeful new year in 2022. The piece explores themes of hope and change.

The new year is the most important topic in this poem. The poet alludes to the ways that a new year brings about new beginnings and inspire everyday people to live better lives.

May this be the day

We come together.

Mourning, we come to mend,

Withered, we come to weather,

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Ring Out Wild Bells

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Ring Out Wild Bells’ by Alred Tennyson is about the new year and all the ways the world could change for the better.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light:

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

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The Parting of the Year

by Anna de Brémont

‘The Parting of the Year’ depicts the Old Year as a departing lover, blending farewell sorrow with the New Year’s hopeful arrival.

The midnight hour had come. With tearful eyes

And sad the Old Year strained I to my breast.

For we were loth to part—his lips I pressed

All tenderly in answer to his sighs.

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