Thomas Hardy

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 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