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New Year's Day -- Ground-hog Day (Candlemas Day) -- Lincoln's birthday -- Valentine's Day -- Washington's birthday -- St. Patrick's Day -- Spring -- Easter -- April Fool's Day -- Arbor Day -- May Day -- Mother's Day -- Memorial Day (Decoration Day) -- Flag Day -- Father's Day -- Summer -- The Fourth of July (Independence Day) -- Labor Day -- Autumn -- Columbus Day -- Halloween -- Book Week -- Veteran's Day (Armistice Day) -- Thanksgiving -- Winter -- Christmas. "I must remember" Shelley Silverman The Wassail Song "Happy New Year! Happy New Year! A New Year Carol from The Death of the Old Year, Alfred, Lord Tennyson January 1, Marnie Pomeroy Up the Hill, Down the hill, Eleonor Farjeon from A New Year Idyl, Eugene Field Ground hog day, Marnie Pomeroy "If Candlemas day be dry and fair" "If Candlemas day be fair and bright" Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all, Vachel Lindsay In Hardin county, 1809, Lulu E. Thompson Anne Rutledge, Edgar Lee Master's Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Vincent Benet Romance, Robert Louis Stevenson From Sally in our Alley, Henry Carey Valentine Promise My luve's like a red, red rose, Robert Burns "Do you love me" Good bishop Valentine, Eleanor Farjeon A Pavane for the nursery , William Jay Smith Valentine, Shelley Silverstein Washington Monument by Night, Carl Sandburg George Washington, Shelley Silverstein Leetla Giorgio Washeenton, T.A.Daly Young Washington, Arthur Guiterman The birth of Saint Patrick, Samuel Lover The Wearin' of the green Song, William Watson April, Sara Teasdale Four little foxes, Lew Sarett I bended unto Me, T.E. Brown Spring Song, Hilda Conkling Now that the Winter's gone, Thomas Carew Old man rain, Madison Cawein the ecchoing green, William Blake from Spring, William Miller Sudden shower, John Clare Twist-rime on spring, Arthur Guiterman Kerchoo!, Margaret Fishback The bown bear, Mary Austin Old Dan'l, L.A.G. Stong Upon an Easter morning, Eleanor Farjeon Alleluia! Alleluia! Let the holy anthem rise the lent lily, A. E. Housman Easter, Edwin L. Sabin April Fool's day, Marinei Pomeroy There was an old woman Oh did you hear?, Shelley Silverstein The tree, Johnes Very from The Planting of the apple tree, William Cullen Bryant The tree, Bjornstjerne Bjornson Sister, awake! May, William Barnes Cows, James Reeves May Day, Sara Teasdale Song, Samuel Taylor Coleridge A mother is a sun, Peggy Bennett To my mother, Louis Ginsberg The sick child, Robert Louis "Strength and hounour are her clothing" Night and Morning, Dorothy Aldis Decoration Day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The March, J.C. Squire May thirtieth Memorial day, Theodosia Garrison Brother, lift your flag with mine, Josephine Daskam Bacon Barbara Frietchie, John Greenleaf Whittier The Flag, Shelley Silverstein Father's Story, Elizabeth Madox Roberts Father, Mildred Weston The secret heart, Robert P. Tristram Coffin Summer song, E. Nesbit The Throstle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Peace and joy, Shelley Silverstein Midsummer pause, Fred Lape Laughing song, William Blake Poem, E. E. Cummings Midsummer fantasy, Newman Levy Summer morning, John Clare from Listen to the people: Independence Day, 1941, Stephen Vincent Benet Grandfather Watts's Private Fourth, H.C. Bunner If I had a firecracker, Shelley Silverman Fireworks, James Reeves I hear America singing, Walt whitman "Ther you sit," Shelley Silverstein Labor day , Marnie Pomeroy A child's thought of harvest, Susan Coolidge A Vagabond Song, Bliss Carman October's song, Eleanor Farjeon An Autumnal evening, William Sharp God's World, Edna St. Vincent Millay Someting told the wild geese, Rachel Field Late October, Sara Teasdale The last flower, John Travers Moore October's bright blue weather, Helen Hunt Jackson Autumn, Translated by Frank O'Conner Columbus, Arthur Hugh Clough The Discovery, J. C. Squire The great discovery, Eleanor farjeon Hallowe'en, Harry Behn On Halloween, Shelley Silverstein The hag, Robert Herrick Halloween, Marnie Pomeroy Hallowe'en Indignation meeting, Margaret Fishback Ghoulies and Ghosties A book, Hannah More O for a Booke "If someone asks you," Mitchell Donian Everyone Sang, Siegfried Sassoon When Johnny comes marching home, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore Thankgiving wishes, Arthur Guiterman When father carves the duck, E. V. Wright The pumpkin, John Greenleaf Whittier Signs of winter, John Clare Winter is Icumen in , Bradford Smith The pine bough, Richard aldridge Winter, James Hurnard Old winter, Thomas Noel from Winter, Charles Mair January, Elizabeth Coatsworth When Icicles hang by the wall, William Shakespeare from The first snow-fall, James Russell Lowell White Fields, James Stephens Up in the morning early, Robert Burns Mrs. Santa Claus' Christmas Present, Alice S. Morris Christmas Song, Bliss Carman Sweet was the song Christmas Morning, Elizabeth Madox Roberts Christmas Pageant, Margaret Fishback Earth and Sky, Eleanor Farjeon Chanson Innocente, E. E. Cummings Long, Long Ago Simple Sam, Leroy F. Jackson I heard the bells on Christmas day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Triolet on a dark day, Margaret Fishback Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, Robert Frost

An anthology of seasonal and holiday poems from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.