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Thanksgiving Poems

	Thanks by W. S. Merwin Listen... The Thanksgivings by Harriet Maxwell Converse We who are here present thank the Great Spirit... Around Us by Marvin Bell We need some pines to assuage the darkness... A List of Praises by Anne Porter Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing... Dusting by Marilyn Nelson Thank you for these tiny... For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children... Starfish by Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up to... What Was Told, That by Rumi translated by Coleman Barks What was said to the rose that made it open was said... Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson Lift ev'ry voice and sing... Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning Grow old along with me... For the Twentieth Century by Frank Bidart Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand... Slow Waltz Through Inflatable Landscape by Christian Hawkey At the time of his seeing a hole opened—a pocket opened... The Routine Things Around the House by Stephen Dunn When Mother died... The Teacher by Hilarie Jones I was twenty-six the first time I held... The Triumph of Time by Algernon Charles Swinburne Before our lives divide for ever... Two Countries by Naomi Shihab Nye Skin remembers how long the years grow... Visiting Pai-an Pavilion by Hsieh Ling-yun translated by Sam Hamill Beside this dike, I shake off the world's dust...

Featured Essays

At the Common Table: Poems for Thanksgiving

Read an essay exploring poems appropriate to Thankgiving, including classic and contemporary favorites by John Greenleaf Whittier, Langston Hughes, Charles Reznikoff, Anthony Hecht, A. R. Ammons, Bruce Weigl, and others. More >

Great Anthology: Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americans

One of the editor's main concerns when working on this anthology was not to use the "limiting" European definition of a poem, but rather to open up the definition to include the context surrounding the spoken word. Read More >

Favorite Thanksgiving Poems

The Pumpkin
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun...

Te Deum
by Charles Reznikoff
Not because of victories...

Signs of the Times
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah...

Thanksgiving Letter from Harry
by Carl Dennis
I guess I have to begin
by admitting...

The Harvest Moon
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes...

The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
by Lydia Maria Child
Over the river, and through the wood...

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