Happy New Year poems and short verses to wish your friends and family a happy New Year’s Eve! Perfect for a New Year’s Eve toast or speech, or to write in a text message as the midnight hour approaches!
Stir the eggnog. Lift the toddy.
Happy New Year, everybody!
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going; let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Another fresh new year is here
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
~ William Arthur Ward
Here’s to the bright New Year
And a fond farewell to the old;
Here’s to the things that are yet to come
And to the memories that we hold.
~ Anon
Let us have wine and women
Mirth and laughter
Sermons and soda-water
The day after.
~ Lord Byron
Congratulations! Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
~ Dr Seuss
Should old acquaintance be forgotten,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgotten,
And old lang syne!
For old lang syne, my dear,
For old lang syne.
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
For old lang syne.
~ Robert Burns
Tonight’s December 31,
Something is about to burst.
Hark, it’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!
~ Ogden Nash
