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