- 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)
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