Thanksgiving Poetry
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The Feast-time of the Year
(Author Unknown)
This is the feast-time of the year,
When plenty pours her wine of cheer,
And even humble boards may spare
To poorer poor a kindly share.
While bursting barns and granaries know
A richer, fuller overflow.
And they who dwell in golden ease
Blest without toil, yet toil to please.
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Funny Bird
(Author Unknown)
A turkey is a funny bird,
Its head goes wobble, wobble,
All it knows is just one word,
"Gobble, gobble, gobble."
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Turkey Warning
(Author Unknown)
Tell me, Mr. Turkey,
Don't you feel afraid
When you hear us talking
'Bout the plans we've made?
Can't you hear us telling
How we're going to eat
Cranberries and stuffing
With our turkey meat?
Turkey, heed my warning:
Better fly away;
Or you will be sorry
On Thanksgiving day.
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Thanksgiving Time
(Author Unknown)
When all the leaves are off the boughs,
And nuts and apples gathered in,
And cornstalks waiting for the cows,
And pumpkins safe in barn and bin,
Then Mother says, "My children dear,
The fields are brown, and autumn flies;
Thanksgiving Day is very near,
And we must make thanksgiving pies!"
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The Pilgrims Came
(Author Unknown)
The Pilgrims came across the sea,..................
And never thought of you and me;..................
And yet it's very strange the way..................
We think of them Thanksgiving day...................
We tell their story, old and true..................
Of how they sailed across the blue,..................
And found a new land to be free..................
And built their homes quite near the sea..................
Every child knows well the tale..................
Of how they bravely turned the sail...................
And journeyed many a day and night,..................
To worship God as they thought right..................
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Giving Thanks
(Author Unknown)
........For the hay and
the corn and the wheat that is reaped,
.......For the labor
well done, and the barns that are heaped,
.......For the sun and
the dew and the sweet honeycomb,
.......For the rose and
the song and the harvest brought home --
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!
.......For the trade
and the skill and the wealth in our land,
.......For the cunning
and strength of the workingman's hand,
For the good that our artists and poets have taught,
.......For the friendship
that hope and affection have brought --
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!
.......For the homes
that with purest affection are blest,
For the season of plenty and well-deserved rest,
For our country extending from sea unto sea;
The land that is known as the "Land of the Free" --
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!
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.....................Singing,
the Reapers Homeward Come
......................................(Author
Unknown)
Singing, the reapers homeward come, Io! Io!
Merrily singing the harvest home, Io! Io!
Along the field, along the road,
Where autumn is scattering leaves abroad,
Homeward cometh the ripe last load, Io! Io!
Singers are filling the twilight dim
With cheerful song, Io! Io!
The spirit of song ascends to Him
Who causeth the corn to grow.
He freely sent the gentle rain,
The summer sun glorified hill and plain,
To golden perfection brought the grain, Io! Io!
Silently, nightly, fell the dew,
Gently the rain, Io! Io!
But who can tell how the green corn grew,
Or who beheld it grow?
Oh! God the good, in sun and rain,
He looked on the flourishing fields and grain,
Till they all appeared on hill and plain
Like living gold, Io! Io!
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