Biography on nancy byrd turner poems

Everything is black and gold,
Black and gold, to-night:
Yellow pumpkins, yellow moon
Yellow candlelight;
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He played by the river when he was young.
He raced with rabbits along the hills,
He fished for minnows, and climbed and swung,
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Sometimes the weather is a man
With gray cloak flying free;
His coat of mail is icy hail,
A stormy steed rides he.
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Death is only an old door
Set in a garden wall
On gentle hinges it gives, at dusk
When the thrushes call
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Who loves his country will not rest
Content with vow and pledge alone,
But flies her banner in his breast
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Biography on nancy byrd turner poems in order

There was a boy of other days,
A quiet, awkward, earnest lad,
Who trudged long weary miles to get
A book on which his heart was set—
And then no candle had!
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The Wooden Dog and the China Cat
Face to face in the doll-house sat,
And they picked a quarrel that grew and grew,
Because they had nothing else to do.

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Amos and Ann had a poem to learn,
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