Find poems about gratitude, family, food, home, and giving thanks for the Thanksgiving holiday.


Classic Poems for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day” by Lydia Maria Child
Over the river, and through the wood...

The Thanksgivings” by Harriet Maxwell Converse
We who are here present thank the Great Spirit...

A Song for Merry Harvest” by Eliza Cook
Bring forth the harp, and let us sweep its fullest, loudest string …

A Thanksgiving Poem” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The sun hath shed its kindly light…

Grace for a Child” by Robert Herrick
Here, a little child I stand...

A Thank-Offering” by Ella Higginson
Lord God, the winter has been sweet and brief …

Thanksgiving Turkey” by George Parsons Lathrop
Valleys lay in sunny vapor…

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

Thanksgiving” by James Whitcomb Riley
Let us be thankful—not only because…

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

Thanksgiving” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We walk on starry fields of white…

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