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Short Name: Nancy Byrd Turner
Full Name: Turner, Nancy Byrd, 1880-1971
Birth Year: 1880
Death Year: 1971

Turner, Nancy Byrd. Born in Boydton, Virginia, July 29, 1880, daughter of Byrd Thornton Turner and Nancy Addison (Harrison) Turner. Composed her first verse at three. First published verse at age of 8--a romantic ballad, "Ruth in the Dentist's Chair" (he fell in love). Her father was an Episcopal minister; they lived in about a dozen small towns or rural communities during her childhood. In 1916, she went to Boston and joined the staff of Youth's Companion. She wrote under many pen names, and published in several magazines. She won numerous awards, including the "Golden Rose" of the New England Poetry Society and the Lyric Associates award of 1951.

--Letter from Turner Rose to Jean Woodward Steele, Westminster Press, 1 February 1974, DNAH Archives.


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Above the world the winter starsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
All the world is God's worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Always earth is very fairNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Baby Jesus, fast asleepNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Blow, wind, blow up and downNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Children who walk in Jesus' wayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Comes the wondrous hourNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Cream from the red cowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Day has come and birds are singingNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Deep under plain and mountain lieNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
Every Christian night there comesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
Every year at Easter timeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Faithful and steady, Waiting we standNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Father, hear our morning prayerNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Father, we bring Thee our praisesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
For this good year of oursNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Friends of Jesus must be kindNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Glad autumn time has comeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
Glad in the house of GodNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
God is Father to you and to meNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
God is my helper, this I knowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
God made us a beautiful worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
God's children live in many landsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
God's children speak in different tonguesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
Green in all the meadowsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Grow, wee violet; bloom, fair rose!Nancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
He is ready to aid, when we prayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Here, Lord, our seeds we're sowingNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
I will be faithful, I will be trueNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
I will be true the livelong dayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
In garden, field and meadowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
In tiny nests among the leavesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
It is very good to be Useful in the familyNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
It's your flag and my flag, with light in every starNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Just before I sleep tonightNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Kitty cat, I'll smooth your furNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Learn well one lovely ruleNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Let us be loyal! Heart and handNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Little, light, All the nightNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Love made the daisy on the hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Men go out from the placesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
Merrily, merrily, Tell of the Christmas treeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Moved by the Gospel, let us moveNancy Byrd Turner, 1880-19817 (Author (alt. text))English1
Nobody is too young, Nobody is too smallNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Now in chilly placesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Now it's happy autumn timeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
O Son of Man, who walked each dayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English14
Once there was a garden fairNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Once there was a little town Upon a quiet hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Our happy land AmericaNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Our heavenly Father's watchful love is over usNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Shall we not send to other landsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Shine, shine, Christmas starNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Shine, shine over all the worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Sing about a birthday, Birthday bright and clearNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Some of us live in the fair, cold northNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Speak to Thy child, O GodNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Stars were gleaming, Shepherds dreamingNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English8
Thank God for lovely summertimeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
The church of God is everywhereNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
The little King of the world came downNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
The Lord is great, and great his endless gloryNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
The lovely day is over nowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
The wee bird in the willowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
The Word of God must goNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
The Word of God shall guide my feetNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English6
There were three lights that nightNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
There's frost on the hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
'Twas in an old garden Upon an old hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
'Twas long ago and far awayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
Very yellow, very brownNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
We will be friends with all the worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
We're children of one FatherNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
When Jesus walked in old JudeaNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
When Jesus walked this earth of ours He loved the little growing flowersNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
When Jesus was a little ladNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
When light is in the morning skyNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
When morning light is on the hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
When skies are blue and wind is gayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
When the week has endedNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English1
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