Our poetry week, which began with Sara Teasdale’s “A Winter Blue Jay,” closes with another bird poem, another epiphany in which joy is witnessed, if (this time ...

THOMAS Hardy wrote this poem on December 31, 1900. Its message of hope and optimism amid gloom seems as powerful as ever. THE DARKLING THRUSH I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, ...

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