Who is Fay Inchfawn

Elizabeth Rebecca Ward (2 December 1880 – 16 April 1978) was a prolific English writer of popular verse, religious works, and works for children, writing under the pen-name Fay Inchfawn. Her works were serialised in women's magazines, and she was sometimes known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home".

Early life and family

Elizabeth Rebecca Ward was born Elizabeth Rebecca Daniels at Portishead, Somerset, on 2 December 1880. She married Atkinson Ward (1882 – October 1965) in 1911 in the Long Ashton district of Somerset. They moved to Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire and in 1913 had a daughter, Mary Arundell Ward (died 1983), who was known as "Bunty" in Ward's books. In 1927, the family moved to Innisfree, a Victorian villa at Freshford, Somerset, where she lived for th...
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Fay Inchfawn Poems

  • Because
    (PSALM CXVI.)

    Because He heard my voice, and answered me,
    Because He listened, ah, so patiently, ...
  • The Lad's Love By The Gate
    Down in the dear West Country, there's a garden where I know
    The Spring is rioting this hour, though I am far away --
    Where all the glad flower-faces are old loves of long ago,
    And each in its accustomed place is blossoming to-day. ...
  • Two Women
    "I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord" -- Phil. iv. 2,

    EUODIAS.
    ...
  • The Log Fire
    In her last hour of life the tree
    Gave up her glorious memories,
    Wild scent of wood anemone,
    The sapphire blue of April skies. ...
  • To Mother
    I would that you should know,
    Dear mother, that I love you -- love you so!
    That I remember other days and years;
    Remember childish joys and childish fears. ...
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Sweet 16 Face 9 Long 9 Forget 9 Good 8 Door 8 Soul 8 Kitchen 7 Small 7 Hold 7


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nicholas misiko: have read her books in bible commentaries by baclays
David hall: I have a hand written poem On the cotswolds now signed fay inchfawn was it ever published

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Beatrice. (From Dante. Purgatorio, Xxx., Xxxi.)
 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even as the Blessed, at the final summons,
Shall rise up quickened, each one from his grave,
Wearing again the garments of the flesh,
So, upon that celestial chariot,
A hundred rose
ad vocem tanti senis
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Ministers and messengers of life eternal.
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