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Nancy Byrd Turner's Poetry, by first line

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  • Lincoln
    There was a boy of other days,
    A quiet, awkward, earnest lad,
    20 lines
  • May
    A green-thatched cottage was May's sweet home
        With velvet moss for a floor,
    122 lines
  • Zodiac Town
    Amos and Ann had a poem to learn,
        A poem to learn one day;
    137 lines
  • Death Is A Door
    Death is only an old door
    Set in a garden wall
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • Black And Gold
    Everything is black and gold,
    Black and gold, to-night:
    13 lines, 2 comments
  • Here Is This Day
    Here is this day,
    Across the fields of darkness softly come
    34 lines, 1 comment
  • October
    It was a queer October place--
        No house, you'd say, at all!
    124 lines
  • Men Go Out From The Places Where They Dwelled
    Men go out from the places where they dwelled,
    They know not why not whither, overborne
    16 lines
  • August
    Oh, such a funny August house--
        It really was like a zoo,
    186 lines
  • First Thanksgiving Of All
    Peace and Mercy and Jonathan,
    And Patience (very small),
    23 lines
  • April
    The April house was near a pond;
        It was made of reeds and of rushes,
    159 lines
  • December
    The house of December was all aglow,
        Each room was jolly and red;
    241 lines
  • July
    The July house was an old, old house,
        With an old, old man inside,
    140 lines
  • June
    The June house wasn't a house at all,
        But a level and leafy place,
    184 lines
  • March
    The March house, strangely, was built in a tree,
        With a fluttering roof of leaves,
    134 lines
  • November
    The next house stood just back from the street,
        In a gray little narrow lane.
    107 lines
  • The Quarrel
    The Wooden Dog and the China Cat
    Face to face in the doll-house sat,
    28 lines
  • February
    They went to the February place:
        'Twas fashioned, with curious art,
    135 lines
  • January
    They went to the January house,
        A house made all of snow,
    123 lines
  • September
    Very familiar September seemed:
        A flag-pole stood in the yard,
    119 lines
  • Love Of Country
    Who loves his country will not rest
    Content with vow and pledge alone,
    12 lines
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