The Great Beech (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
With heart disposed to memory, let me standNear this monarch and this minstrel of the land,Now that Dian leans so ...
Norman Rowland Gale Poems (31 Poems)
An Orchard Dance (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
All work is over at the farmAnd men and maids are ripe for glee;Love slips among them sly and warmOr ...
To My Brothers (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
O BROTHERS, who must ache and stoop O'er wordy tasks in London town, How scantly Laura trips for you- A poem in a ...
A Priest (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
NATURE and he went ever hand in hand Across the hills and down the lonely lane; They captured starry shells upon the ...
The Golden Game (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
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 On The Hearth (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
When red-nosed Winter takes the road,An icicle his walking-stick,When frost is on the woodman's load,And snow is falling fast and ...
The Ballade Of The Glutton (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
I'm greedy by nature, and often in vainHave lingered too long o'er the succulent hare,Accepting the jelly, ignoring the pain,Intent ...
Oiling (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Excuse me, Sweetheart, if I smear, With wisdom learnt from ancient teachers, Now winter time once more is here, This grease upon your ...
Most Anglers are Very Humane (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
The kind-hearted angler was sadly pursuingHis calling unhallowed of choking the fishes;He bitterly wept, for of course he was doingAn ...
‘Most Anglers Are Very Humane’ – Daily Paper (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
The kind-hearted angler was sadly pursuingHis calling unhallowed of choking the fishes;He bitterly wept, for of course he was doingAn ...
Old Letters (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Last night some yellow letters fellFrom out a scrip I found by chance;Among them was the silent ghost,The spirit of ...
The Decimal Point (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
When first sent to School (now the Station was Rugby)I fancied my masters and took to the boys;I thought to ...
Golf Steals Our Youth (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Have you seen the golfers airyPrancing forth to their vagary,Just as frisky in their gaitersAs a flock of Grecian Satyrs,Looking ...
On Seeing A Train Start For The Seaside (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
O might I leave this grassy placeFor spreading foam about my feet!The splendid spray upon my face,The flying brine itself ...
The Amateur Photographer (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Beware of those who slyly pilchIn many cunning ways;Beware of little lyres that filchFrom undisputed bays!Beware the tumbler's beaded brim,The ...
Song – Wait But A Little While (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
WAIT but a little while- The bird will bring A heart in tune for melodies Unto the spring, Till he who 's in the ...
The Hidden Wealth (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Adam and Eve together stoodAmid the crop they both were tending,While far away the feathery woodOf Eden in the wind ...
The Fairy Book (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
In summer, when the grass is thick, if Mother has the time,She shows me with her pencil how a poet ...
A Dead Friend (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
IT hardly seems that he is dead, So strange it is that we are here Beneath this great blue shell of sky With ...
Holy Ground (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Shy maids have haunts of still delight,The lover glades he never tells;And one is mine where mass the brightAnd odoured ...
My Country Love (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
If you passed her in your cityYou would call her badly dressed,But the faded homespun coversSuch a heart in such ...
The First Kiss (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
On Helen's heart the day were night! But I may not adventure there: Here breast is guarded by a right, And she is ...
Bees (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
You voluble,VelvetyVehement fellowsThat play on yourFlying andMusical cellos,All goldenlyGirdled youSenerade clover,Each artist inBass but aBibulous rover!You passionate,PowderyPastoral bandits,Who gave you ...
This Peach Is Pink With Such A Pink (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
This peach is pink with such a pinkAs suits the peach divinely;The cunning colour rarely spreadFades to the yellow finely;But ...
A Prayer (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Tend me my birds, and bring againThe brotherhood of woodland life,So shall I wear the seasons roundA friend to need, ...
The Country Faith (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
HERE in the country's heart Where the grass is green, Life is the same sweet life As it e'er hath been. Trust in a ...
Bartholomew (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Bartholomew is very sweet,From sandy hair to rosy feet.Bartholomew is six months old,And dearer far than pearls or gold.Bartholomew has ...
Cicely Bathing (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
The brook told the doveAnd the dove told meThat Cicely's bathing at the poolWith other virgins three.The brook told the ...
Wages (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
My lass, when Godto suffer sent me,no gifts he gave,but only lent mefor gold, my breath,for silver, labour;the sky as ...
Content (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
THOUGH singing but the shy and sweet Untrod by multitudes of feet, Songs bounded by the brook and wheat, I have not failed ...