Thomas HardyA 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