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New Year

Ring out, wild bells - by Private: Tennyson, Alfred Lord

{ Poem }

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.

The Old Year - by John Clare

{ Poem }

The Old Year’s gone away
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
Nor hear him in the night

Open the Door - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

Open the door for the auld year
/ It is the pairtin-time:
/ Open the door for the new year
/ And lat the bairn win…

View of Scotland/Love Poem - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

Down on her hands and knees
/ at ten at night on Hogmanay,
/ my mother still giving it elbowgrease
/ jiffywaxing the vinolay. (This is…

Staying In - by Charlotte Runcie

{ Poem }

I watch the city shrug its clothes back on.
/ An appaloosa spatter gathers scent
/ that hits the brain the way it hits…

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