Who is Cale Young Rice

Cale Young Rice (December 7, 1872 – January 24, 1943) was an American poet and dramatist. He was professor of English at Cumberland University. His opera, Yolanda of Cyprus, was widely received.

Life and career

Rice was born in Dixon, Kentucky, to Laban Marchbanks Rice, a Confederate veteran and tobacco merchant, and his wife Martha Lacy. He was a younger brother of Laban Lacy Rice, a noted educator, author, and president of Cumberland University. Cale Rice grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated at Cumberland University where he was a member of the Theta chapter of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and at Harvard (A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896).On December 18, 1902, Rice was married to the popular author Alice Hegan Rice; they worked together on ...
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Cale Young Rice Poems

• When The Wind Is Low
  When the wind is low, and the sea is soft,
  And the far heat-lightning plays
  On the rim of the west where dark clouds nest
  On a darker bank of haze;...
• The Mystic
  There is a quest that calls me,
  In nights when I am lone,
  The need to ride where the ways divide
  The Known from the Unknown....
• The Chant Of The Colorado
  (At the Grand Canyon)
  
  My brother, man, shapes him a plan
  And builds him a house in a day,...
• Old Age
  I have heard the wild geese,
  I have seen the leaves fall,
  There was frost last night
  On the garden wall....
• New Dreams For Old
  Is there no voice in the world to come crying,
  “New dreams for old!
  New for old!”?
  Many have long in my heart been lying,...

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Comments about Cale Young Rice

• Iswearenglish: cale young rice - old age - analysis reading explanation - old age by cale young rice 1872-1943
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• Readusorg: they said, "her tears will fall like autumn rain." — cale young rice, song-surf
• Fallenomega: the brown sad sea-weed drifting far from the land, and lost; the faint warm fog unlifting, the derelict long tossed, but now at rest—though haunted by the death-scenting shark, whose prey no more undaunted slips from it, spent and stark." -cale young rice
• D_siebe: cale young rice, the writer whose poem is used in ware's "highland joy," was from the same region of kentucky as my...

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