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
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Fay Inchfawn
- 2: Has such an awkward bend
- 3: These tiresome things will all go by
- 4: Lovingly Keep tryst with Me
- 5: Through kitchen windows winging
- 6: There are so many houses just like mine
- 7: I was back among the Cotswolds
- 8: When Baby Strayed When Baby strayed
- 9: And those dear folks down in Devon
- 10: For His sake I'll endure her whispering SYNTYCHE
- 11: Pouring out the tea Your mother is a boxer
- 12: Where no familiar thing May bring familiar comforting
- 13: And childern still to me
- 14: The Naughty Day I've had a naughty day to day
- 15: Set my heart singing all in sweet accord
- 16: The frail Anemone Said softly
- 17: And that owd hoss of his can't go
- 18: They're glad of pore owd stoopid John
- 19: They packed away the birdies' songs
- 20: One rapturous Spirit radiant stood