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. ...
  • 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! ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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: ...
  • 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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Sweet 12 Heart 10 Love 10 I Love You 10 Time 8 God 8 Long 7 Blue 7 Face 7 Grass 6


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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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