dooryard
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A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
court
courtyard
yard
front yard
park
bailey
grass
gateway
atrium
acting
door
gate
enclosure
patio
frontage
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Paul Hindemith 's distinctive modal language is represented by both his a cappella Mass and his Six Chansons on texts by Rilke, while a more contrapuntally dissonant style comes through in his secular requiem, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
But the greatest poem he wrote for Lincoln’s death is the unforgettable masterpiece, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”