- Robert Herrick,
“A Thanksgiving to God, for his House” (1648) - Robert Burns,
“The Selkirk Grace” (1794) - Lydia Maria Child,
“Over the River and Through the Wood” (1844) - John Greenleaf Whittier,
“The Pumpkin” (1850) - Algernon Charles Swinburne,
“The Garden of Proserpine” (1866) - Kate Seymour Maclean,
“Thanksgiving” (1880) - Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
“Thanksgiving” (1896) - Emily Dickinson,
“One day is there of the series” (#814) - Paul Laurence Dunbar,
“Signs of the Times,” from Lyrics of Lowly Life (1899) - Walt Whitman,
“The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,” from Leaves of Grass (1891) - Paul Laurence 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) - Langston Hughes,
“Thanksgiving Time” (1921)
Poems for Thanksgiving Day
A Selection of Mostly American poems
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com Guides
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