The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/On my Wedding-Day

by George Gordon Byron

ON MY WEDDING-DAY.

Here's a happy New Year! but with reason
⁠I beg you'll permit me to say—
Wish me many returns of the Season,
⁠But as few as you please of the Day^[1]

January 2, 1820.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 294.]

1. [Medwin (Conversations, 1824, p. 156) prints an alternative—

   "You may wish me returns of the season,
   ⁠Let us, prithee, have none of the day!"]