Norman Rowland Gale
Who is Norman Rowland Gale
Norman Rowland Gale (4 March 1862 – 7 October 1942) was a poet, novelist and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years.Gale was born in Kew, Surrey. He entered Exeter College, Oxford in 1880 and graduated in 1884. He was a teacher for some years, but in 1892 he began writing full-time. His poems "Betrothed" and "The Call" appeared in The Yellow Book. His best-known poem is probably "The Country Faith", which is in The Oxford Book of English Verse. In the United States, Louis Untermeyer included it in his anthology Modern British Poetry, and, with a change of title to "Life in the Country", it opened the second reader in Cora Wilson Stewart's series, Country Life Readers.For the last two years of his life Gale lived in Headley Down, Hampshire, where he died at...
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Norman Rowland Gale Poems
- An Orchard Dance
All work is over at the farm
And men and maids are ripe for glee;
Love slips among them sly and warm
Or calls them to the chestnut-tree.
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- The Golden Game
If ever there was a Golden Game
To brace the nerves, to cure repining,
To put the Dumps to flight and shame,
It's Cricket when the sun is shining!
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- The Great Beech
With heart disposed to memory, let me stand
Near this monarch and this minstrel of the land,
Now that Dian leans so lovely from her car.
Illusively brought near by seeming falsely far,
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- The Decimal Point
When first sent to School (now the Station was Rugby)
I fancied my masters and took to the boys;
I thought to myself--here 'tis plain I shall snug be
Revolving at last in an orbit of joys:
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- Song - Wait But A Little While
WAIT but a little whileâ??
The bird will bring
A heart in tune for melodies
Unto the spring,
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- Elidanza: you passionate,
powdery
pastoral bandits,
who gave you your
roaming and
rollicking mandates?
come out of my
foxglove; come
out of my roses
you bees with the
plushy and
plausible noses!
by norman rowland gale
- Brucearthurs4: one of the helen stratton (1867-1961) illustrations for songs for little people (norman rowland gale, 1896), at the start of a long career in book illustration.
- Alabandine_: helen stratton (1867-1961). illustrations for songs for little people by norman rowland gale. 1896.
- Sizzlepack: epigraph to chapter one:
you voluble,
velvety,
vehement fellows,
that play on your
flying and
musical cellos......
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