Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy

Series: Faber Nature Poets

A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.

At once a voice arose among

The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong

Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,

In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul

Upon the growing gloom . . .

-The Darkling Thrush