Main Entry: door·yard
Pronunciation: -"yärd
Function: noun
Date: circa 1764
: a yard next to the door of a house


    In this line of the poem dooryard means a yard next to the door of a house. This line of the poem, "always before about my dooryard" is a lot easier to understand if you read the next three lines after it. It is basically saying that the water washed up debri and driftwood and sand onto her yard and inbetween the drift wood and sand grew the wild sweet peas, at her house by the ocean and this is one of the many things she misses.



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