From Bob Holman & Margery Snyder,
Your Guide to Poetry.
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Here are a few classic American poems gathered for reading around Election Day:

• John Greenleaf Whittier,
  “The Poor Voter on Election Day” (1852)
  
  
• Walt Whitman,
  “Election Day, November 1884,” from Leaves of Grass (1892)
  
  
• William Carlos Williams,
  “The Approaching Hour,” “The Mind’s Games” & “Election Day” (1972)

And for the day after, a contemporary post-election blues:

• Jim Finnegan,
  “Election Year”