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Nancy Byrd Turner

  • “Death is only an old door / Set in a garden wall.”

    • Nancy Byrd Turner,
    • "Death Is a Door," Star in a Well ()

  • “The Bookshop has a thousand books, / All colors, hues, and tinges, / And every cover is a door / That turns on magic hinges.”

    • Nancy Byrd Turner,
    • "The Bookshop," in Schools for Democracy ()

Nancy Byrd Turner, U.S. poet, editor

(1880 - 1971)