Guide Note

This page offer links to poems about and inspired by the holiday, Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving poetry eloquently expresses the sentiments, conjuring up images and memories holidays past.

Thanksgiving Fast Facts

1. Thanksgiving is celebrated the fourth Thursday of November in America
2. 2008: November 27
3. Traditional dinner includes turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie
4. One of the busiest travel days of the year¹

The Thanksgiving most Americans believe to be the origin of the holiday took place in 1621, when after a bountiful harvest in a land that had been hard on many of the settlers, the pilgrims decided to give thanks with a feast. They celebrated the harvest with their Native American neighbors, the Wampanoag tribe.²

• "Thanksgiving"
• The year has turned its circle,
• The seasons come and go.'
• The harvest all is gathered in
• And chilly north winds blow.
• Orchards have shared their treasures,
• The fields, their yellow grain,
• So open wide the doorway~
• Thanksgiving comes again!—Unknown³

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