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Title: The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman

Author: Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, AKA Fay Inchfawn

Posting Date: February 28, 2009 [EBook #3477]
Release Date: October, 2002

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VERSE-BOOK OF A HOMELY WOMAN ***

THE VERSE-BOOK OF A HOMELY WOMAN

By Fay Inchfawn

[Elizabeth Rebecca Ward]

CONTENTS

PART I

INDOORS

THE LONG VIEW

WITHIN MY HOUSE

THE HOUSEWIFE

TO MOTHER

IN SUCH AN HOUR

THE DAILY INTERVIEW

THE LITTLE HOUSE

THE HOUSE-MOTHER

A WOMAN IN HOSPITAL

IN CONVALESCENCE

HOMESICK

ON WASHING DAY

WHEN BABY STRAYED

IF ONLY ----

LISTENING

THE DEAR FOLKS IN DEVON

THE REASON

TWO WOMEN

THE PRIZE FIGHT

THE HOME LIGHTS

TO AN OLD TEAPOT

TO A REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER

FOR MOTHERING!

LITTLE FAN

THE NAUGHTY DAY

TO A LITTLE WHITE BIRD

BECAUSE

WHEN HE COMES

PART II

OUT OF DOORS

EARLY SPRING

THE WITNESS

IN SOMERSET

SONG OF A WOODLAND STREAM

LUGGAGE IN ADVANCE

AT THE CROSS ROADS

SUMMER MET ME

THE CARRIER

THE LAD'S LOVE BY THE GATE

THE THRUSH

IN DORSET DEAR

THE FLIGHT OF THE FAIRIES

THE STREET PLAYER

ON ALL SOULS' EVE

THE LOG FIRE

GOD SAVE THE KING

Dedicated

TO

MY FIRST LOVE, MY MOTHER

PART I. INDOORS

The Long View

Some day of days! Some dawning
yet to be
I shall be clothed with immortality!

And, in that day, I shall not greatly care
That Jane spilt candle grease upon the
stair.

It will not grieve me then, as once it did,
That careless hands have chipped my
teapot lid.

I groan, being burdened. But, in that
glad day,
I shall forget vexations of the way.