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

Wikipedia—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Gale