Norman Gale

For the Wales international rugby union player see Norman Gale (rugby player)

Norman Rowland Gale (4 March 1862 – 7 October 1942) was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years.

His best-known poem is probably The Country Faith, which is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.

Publications

• A Country Muse (2 vols), 1892
• Orchard Songs, 1893
• A June Romance, 1894
• All Expenses Paid, 1895
• Cricket Songs, 1894
• Songs for Little People, 1896
• (ed.) Poems by John Clare, 1901
• Barty's Star, 1903
• More Cricket Songs, 1905
• A Book of Quatrains, 1909
• Song in September, 1912
• Solitude, 1913
• Collected Poems, 1914
• The Candid Cuckoo, 1918
• A Merry-go-Round of Song, 1919
• Verse in Bloom, 1925
• A Flight of Fancies, 1926
• Messrs Bat and Ball, 1930
• Close of Play, 1936
• Remembrances, 1937
• Love-in-a-Mist, 1939

References

• Who was Who

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Norman Gale

• Works by Norman Gale at Project Gutenberg (More Cricket Songs)

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