For centuries, poets in all cultures have offered eloquent thanks and praise for the people and things of this world. The voices collected here range from Sappho, Horace, and Rumi to Shakespeare and Milton, from Wordsworth, Rilke, Yeats, Rossetti, and Dickinson to Czeslaw Milosz, Langston Hughes, Yehuda Amichai, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Maya Angelou, and many more. Poems of Gratitude includes beloved favorites, classics from China and Japan; traditional Navajo, Aztec, Inuit, and Iroquois poems; devotional lyrics drawn from the major religious traditions of the world; poetic tributes to autumn and the harvest season that draw attention to nature's bounty and poignant beauty as winter approaches; and more.
- "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
- "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- "Thanks" by W.S. Merwin
- "The Selkirk Grace" by Robert Burns
- "Welcome Morning" by Anne Sexton
- "Thanks in Old Age" by Walt Whitman
- "To My Mother" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "O My Friends" by Rainer Maria Rilke
- "Eagle Poem" by Joy Harjo
- "Prayer" by Maya Angelou
- "Harvest Sunset" by Carl Sandburg
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