Thanksgiving Poems

Welcome to Thanksgiving Poems which brings you poems and quotes for Thanksgiving holiday cards, saying grace, making speeches etc starting with the first thanksgiving poem

So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guitarman, The First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months... Mark Twain

Thanksgiving Poems by Proper Poets, including poems of thanks, suitable to use at Thanksgiving

This is the first batch of Thanksgiving Poems...the less serious follow on

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
Alexander Pope

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He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
J.A. Shedd

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O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
William Shakespeare

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For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some hae meat and canna eat, -
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns

There's more Thanksgiving poems to come

Thanksgiving as a concept was with the Pilgrims who settled in the New World. In 1789 George Washington issued a proclamation and America celebrated its first Day of Thanksgiving but it was not a National Holiday. This didn't happen until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday of November as a national Day of Thanksgiving.In 1941, Congress established it as the fourth Thursday in November (sometimes there are five). Canada has a harvest Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October.

Thanksgiving Poems by Improper poets

Thanks for inviting us
To spend Thanksgiving with you
With good food and good company
The time really flew.
Thanks for the welcome
And your time, preparing the meal;
Thanksgiving to you, and for you
Is the thanksgiving we feel

Jon Bratton

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In November
We Remember
Our special friends
Have a lovely Thanksgiving

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It means so much
To keep in touch
...with special friends like you

Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday

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Thanksgiving is a perfect time
To stop and reminisce
About the many hours we've spent
Discussing that and this-
The laughs, the smiles
That we have known
The wonderful things we've done
That make the friendship that we share
A very special one!
Have a lovely Thanksgiving Day, my friend

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May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!

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This Thanksgiving Day wish
That comes with love to you
Brings warm and heartfelt thanks
For all the thoughtful things you do--
It also comes to let you know
You both mean more each day
To everyone your lives have touched
In such a loving way.

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T...Turkeys, tablespreads, being together,
H...Happiness and homes to protect us from all weather,
A...Aunts and uncles, a reunion in Fall,
N...Nieces and nephews, family members all!
K...Kind-hearted kin coming over for dinner,
S...Surely you'll have fun, but you won't get thinner!
G...Gourds and pumpkins, mouths open wide.
I...Indians and Pilgrims we remember with pride.
V...Very special times-there could even be snow.
I...Imagine what it was like at Plymouth long ago.
N...Never forget how the settlers led the way,
G...Giving thanks and blessing this special day.

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Thank you, dear God
For all You have given me,
For all You have taken away from me,
For all You have left me

That's all the Thanksgiving poems we have but here comes some Thanksgiving Quotes

Thanksgiving Quotes

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
Alistair Cooke (BBC)

Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.Alice W. Brotherton

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. Erma Bombeck

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. Author Unknown

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. Ted Allen

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Unknown

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t. –Unknown

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Chinese Proverb

Here I am 5 o'clock in the morning stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird's butt.

Roseanne Barr

Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns.

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