December (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The house of December was all aglow, Each room was jolly and red; There were bulgy stockings ranged in a row, And holly ...
Nancy Byrd Turner Poems (23 Poems)
August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
June (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The June house wasn't a house at all, But a level and leafy place, Where a gypsy scamp had pitched his camp-- A ...
April (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The April house was near a pond; It was made of reeds and of rushes, All helter-skelter and out of kelter, And ringed ...
Zodiac Town (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Amos and Ann had a poem to learn, A poem to learn one day; But alas! they sighed, and alack! they cried, 'Twere ...
February (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
They went to the February place: 'Twas fashioned, with curious art, Of colored sugar and paper lace, With a front door shaped like ...
March (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The March house, strangely, was built in a tree, With a fluttering roof of leaves, And strong, straight boughs for the walls ...
May (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
A green-thatched cottage was May's sweet home With velvet moss for a floor, And a clambering vine in the gay sunshine, And a ...
July (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The July house was an old, old house, With an old, old man inside, Who told them stories of other days, Stories of ...
October (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
It was a queer October place-- No house, you'd say, at all! A wide brown wood with leaves for a floor, And timbers ...
September (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Very familiar September seemed: A flag-pole stood in the yard, And the little path that led from the road Was trampled bare and ...
January (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
They went to the January house, A house made all of snow, With windows of ice, and chandeliers Of icicles all in a ...
November (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The next house stood just back from the street, In a gray little narrow lane. A table loaded with things to eat They ...
The Quarrel (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The Wooden Dog and the China CatFace to face in the doll-house sat,And they picked a quarrel that grew and ...
First Thanksgiving (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Peace and Mercy and Jonathan,And Patience (very small),Stood by the table giving thanksThe first Thanksgiving of all.There was very little ...
Washington (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
He played by the river when he was young.He raced with rabbits along the hills,He fished for minnows, and climbed ...
Lincoln (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
There was a boy of other days,A quiet, awkward, earnest lad,Who trudged long weary miles to getA book on which ...
Here Is This Day (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Here is this day,Across the fields of darkness softly comeInto my silent room,In the old way;Stir on the sill and ...
Men Go Out From The Places Where They Dwelled (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Men go out from the places where they dwelled,They know not why not whither, overborneAt midnight by some awful word, ...
Love Of Country (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Who loves his country will not restContent with vow and pledge alone,But flies her banner in his breastAnd counts her ...
Black And Gold (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Everything is black and gold,Black and gold, to-night:Yellow pumpkins, yellow moonYellow candlelight;Jet-black cats with golden eyesShadows black as ink,Firelight blinking ...
Death Is A Door (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Death is only an old doorSet in a garden wallOn gentle hinges it gives, at duskWhen the thrushes callAlong the ...
Flag Song (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Look up, there's our flag!We can count every star,--And the red, blue, and white,How lovely they are!Floating high, floating wide,--We ...