Poems for Thanksgiving Day

Classic American poems, gathered for reading (aloud, please!) on Thanksgiving Day:

• Lydia Maria Child,
  “Over the River and Through the Wood” (1844)
  
  
• John Greenleaf Whittier,
  “The Pumpkin” (1850)
  
  
• Kate Seymour Maclean,
  “Thanksgiving” (1880)
  
  
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
  “Thanksgiving” (1896)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “One day is there of the series” (#814)
  
  
• Walt Whitman,
  “The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,” from Leaves of Grass (1900)
  
  
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
  “A Thanksgiving Poem,” from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
  
  
• Harriet Maxwell Converse,
  “The Thanksgivings,” translated from a traditional Iroquois song (1908)
  
  
• Thornton W. Burgess,
  “Thanksgiving Song,” from Happy Jack (1918)
  
  
• Carl Sandburg,
  “Fire Dreams,” from Cornhuskers (1918)