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Nancy Byrd Turner

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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Texts by Nancy Byrd Turner (80)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Above the world the winter starsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
All the world is God's worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Always earth is very fairNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Baby Jesus, fast asleepNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
Blow, wind, blow up and downNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Children who walk in Jesus' wayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Comes the wondrous hourNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Cream from the red cowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Day has come and birds are singingNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Deep under plain and mountain lieNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
Every Christian night there comesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
Every year at Easter timeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Faithful and steady, Waiting we standNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Father, hear our morning prayerNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Father, we bring Thee our praisesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
For this good year of oursNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Friends of Jesus must be kindNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
Glad autumn time has comeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
Glad in the house of GodNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
God is Father to you and to meNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
God is my helper, this I knowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
God made us a beautiful worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
God's children live in many landsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
God's children speak in different tonguesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)1
Green in all the meadowsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Grow, wee violet; bloom, fair rose!Nancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
He is ready to aid, when we prayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Here, Lord, our seeds we're sowingNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
I will be faithful, I will be trueNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
I will be true the livelong dayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
In garden, field and meadowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
In tiny nests among the leavesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
It is very good to be Useful in the familyNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
It's your flag and my flag, with light in every starNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Just before I sleep tonightNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Kitty cat, I'll smooth your furNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Learn well one lovely ruleNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Let us be loyal! Heart and handNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Little, light, All the nightNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Love made the daisy on the hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Men go out from the placesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
Merrily, merrily, Tell of the Christmas treeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
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)English2
Now in chilly placesNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
Now it's happy autumn timeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
O Son of Man, who walked each dayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English13
Once there was a garden fairNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Once there was a little town Upon a quiet hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Our happy land AmericaNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Our heavenly Father's watchful love is over usNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Shall we not send to other landsNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
Shine, shine, Christmas starNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Shine, shine over all the worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Sing about a birthday, Birthday bright and clearNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Some of us live in the fair, cold northNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
Speak to Thy child, O GodNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
Stars were gleaming, Shepherds dreamingNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English9
Thank God for lovely summertimeNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
The church of God is everywhereNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
The little King of the world came downNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
The Lord is great, and great his endless gloryNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
The lovely day is over nowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
The wee bird in the willowNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
The Word of God must goNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
The Word of God shall guide my feetNancy Byrd Turner (Author (v. 1))English7
There were three lights that nightNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
There's frost on the hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
'Twas in an old garden Upon an old hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
'Twas long ago and far awayNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
Very yellow, very brownNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
We will be friends with all the worldNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
We're children of one FatherNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English5
When Jesus walked in old JudeaNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
When Jesus walked this earth of ours He loved the little growing flowersNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
When Jesus was a little ladNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English4
When light is in the morning skyNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English3
When morning light is on the hillNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
When skies are blue and windNancy Byrd Turner (Author)2
When the week has endedNancy Byrd Turner (Author)English2
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