Thomas Hardy

This is a selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber together with the National Trust. At once a voice arose among; the bleak twigs overhead; in 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.