Poems for Thanksgiving Day

Here are a few 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)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “One day is there of the series” (#137)
  
  
• Walt Whitman,
  “The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,” from Leaves of Grass (1900)
  
  
• Harriet Maxwell Converse,
  “The Thanksgivings,” translated from a traditional Iroquois song (1908)