5 Happy New Year's Toasts for Hosts (plus One Traditional Favorite)

New Year's Eve is a traditional time for festive toasts, as New Year's revelers raise glasses to celebrate the promise of a new year. Hosts and others making toasts need not have strong drink, and even youngsters may lift their cups to cheer the New Year.

Perhaps these five original New Year's toasts will spark your own creative impulses as well, and you will want to write your own original wordings for your New Year's Eve party.

Five original (and copyrighted) New Year's Eve toasts are arranged here alphabetically (by title).

A Toast to Friends and Family

Refreshing though the glass may be,

We share a richer toast.

For dearest friends and family

May lift our spirits most.

A Toast to Home

The old is gone. The new is come.

The future does arrive.

May blessings fall on hearth and home

And all our loved ones thrive.

A Toast to Midnight

We welcome you to revelry.

We raise our glasses higher.

And though we bear no guarantee,

A fine year we desire.

A Toast to New Starts

Let's look ahead to brand-new starts

And New Year's resolutions.

May goals we make with all our hearts

Be not mere noise pollutions.

A Toast to Time

The hourglass does lose its sand.

Another year has gone.

We raise a glass to friends most grand

And greet the New Year's dawn.

Creating your own New Year's toasts makes your party much more personal and fun. What witty phrasings or rhymes can you construct for your New Year's Eve party?

A Note from the Author

All of the New Year's toasts listed in this published article are original and copyrighted by the author. Unauthorized use in printed materials, online or in other published arenas is prohibited.

A Traditional New Year's Toast

Of course, an old-time favorite New Year's toast was penned by 19^th Century British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

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.

This popular toast actually was the opening stanza of a hymn," Ring Out the Old," written by Tennyson in 1850. British composer John Baptiste Calkin set Tennyson's words to music about a dozen years later. Calkin's tune, "Waltham," may be also be recognized in the traditional Christmas carol, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."

Happy New Year!