Poetry Codex

Victorian

Norman Gale

1862–1942

Norman Gale (1862–1942) was an English poet whose light, pastoral lyrics made his name in the 1890s, notably in Orchard Songs (1893).

The songs given here are taken from Edmund H. Garrett's anthology Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature (Boston: Little, Brown, 1895).

Poems (17)

  1. A Song
  2. Song
  3. I will not say my true love's eyes
  4. Spring
  5. A Pastoral
  6. The Country Faith
  7. The Shaded Pool
  8. Song
  9. A Priest
  10. A Dead Friend
  11. Content
  12. The First Kiss
  13. To My Brothers
  14. The Voice
  15. Bartholomew
  16. The Fairy Book
  17. The Second Coming

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