Thanksgiving Poems:
Thanksgiving Poetry for a Photo or Memory Book

Thanksgiving poems are wonderful when used in your own photo memory books! They add a sense of fun and occasion to your photos, and are a great way to break up a block of photographs with a bit of text. Thanksgiving poetry is also wonderful if you want to make your own photo card for Thankgiving, or a custom photo Thanksgiving dinner invitation.

Through reading some of the Thanksgiving poems here, I hope you really get a feel for the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

Got a poem of your own that you'd love to share? Send it in to us and we'll post it here! We'd especially love some funny Thanksgiving poems that people can use in a Thanksgiving photo book.

Thanksgiving Poetry: "At Grandma's House"

I like the taste of turkey
Any time throughout the year
But it never
seems to taste as good
As when Thanksgiving's here.

Could be it's all the trimmings
That are cooked with it to eat-
But I think it's
eating at Grandma's house
That makes it such a treat!

~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving Poem: "Thanksgiving Day"

Over the river and through the wood,
To Grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh
Through the white and drifted snow.

Over the river and through the wood,
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes,
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.

Over the river and through the wood,
Trot fast, my dapple gray!
Spring over the ground,
Like a hunting hound,
For this is Thanksgiving-Day.

Over the river and through the wood,
And straight through the barnyard gate!
We seem to go
Extremely slow,
It is so hard to wait!

Over the river and through the wood;
Now Grandmother's cap I spy!
Hurrah for the fun!
Is the pudding done?
Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!

by Lydia Maria Child

Thanksgiving Poem: "The Pilgrims Came"

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.

Author Unknown

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