English Poetry. Norman Rowland Gale. In Spring. Норман Гейл.

Norman Rowland Gale (Норман Гейл)

In Spring

    Grass begins to grow,
      Winds to be more civil,
    Rollers press the pitch
      For to make it level:
    Thrushes pipe a stave
      In the budding thicket;
    Snowdrops point to pads,
      Crocuses to Cricket!

    Soon will stand the Slip
      Crouching for a capture;
    Soon the slogger slog
      Fours and fives in rapture!
    Soon the curly lob
      Find its love, the wicket;
    Snowdrops point to pads,
      Crocuses to Cricket!

    Urchins in the road
      Bowl with oblong pebbles,
    Sending to each mate
      Bursts of happy trebles:
    In the words of slang,
      Summer is the ticket!
    Snowdrops point to pads,
      Crocuses to Cricket!

Norman Rowland Gale’s other poems:

1. The Church Cricketant
2. Revenge
3. The Hope of Surrey
4. The Last Ball of Summer
5. The Commentator

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Ernest Dowson (Эрнест Доусон) In Spring (“See how the trees and the osiers lithe”)

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