The title figure's sound "was written on terrestrial things" and "trembled through/his happy good night air".
The narrator of this poem compares bine-stems to the strings of broken lyres in the opening of this work, which also describes wind as a "death-lament". The narrator describes his surroundings as "The Century's corpse outlent/his crypt the cloudy canopy" and also states that "every spirit upon earth/seemed fervourless as I". All mankind "sought their household fires" on the night of this poem, whose title figure decided to "fling his soul/upon the growing gloom". The title figure's sound "was written on terrestrial things" and "trembled through/his happy good night air". Opening with the narrator leaning upon a coppice gate before viewing the title animal, which is described as "aged […], frail, gaunt, and small", for 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Hardy about a bird.
The narrator of this poem compares bine-stems to the strings of broken lyres in the opening of this work, which also describes wind as a "death-lament".
“The {Darkling Thrush}”