Best poems about — Storgy
New Year.
9 poems, ranked.
9 of the finest public-domain poems about new year, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
The leading three
01
A New Year's Greeting
James Russell Lowell
“Lowell pens a New Year's poem for a young woman still in her teens, someone who hasn't quite grasped the passage of time yet. He envisions that when she does gr…”
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02
January
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“In this short poem, Longfellow personifies January as Janus, the two-faced Roman god of doorways and new beginnings. January presents itself as a strong presenc…”
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03
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Longfellow envisions the dying year as an old man—weak, briefly teased by a warm day, and ultimately swept away by a fierce winter storm. The poem transitions f…”
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The complete index
- 04
New Year's Day
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Swinburne treats the New Year as a mighty figure, pleading for it to rejuvenate England's greatness, quiet her domestic foes, and maintain her standing as a defender of freedom. In…
- 05
New-Year's Eve
Eugene Field
A man sits by himself on New Year's Eve, reflecting on the happier days when his wife and child were by his side. Now, they are gone, and the ticking clock that used to feel like a…
- 06
New-Year's Eve, 1850
James Russell Lowell
Written on the last night of 1850, this poem sees midnight as a turning point: the darkest moment of the century has passed, and now the world begins its journey toward light. Lowe…
- 07
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns · 1788
Two old friends lift their cups in unison, reminiscing about the joyful times of their youth—the hills they raced across, the streams they jumped into, and the years that have draw…
- 08
Dirge for the Year
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A dying year is mourned as if it were a person, yet Shelley continually reminds us that death is merely a long winter's sleep. The months of the new year — January through April —…
- 09
The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy stands by a frost-covered gate on the final day of the nineteenth century, observing a fading landscape that seems to mirror the century's burial. Suddenly, an old, ra…
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