.
![Thoughtful Buster | by MichaelRyerson]()
Thoughtful Buster. Buster Keaton in momentary repose. Appears to be post-war.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 16 December 2017
![Hong-Kong | by jeansebd]()
Hong-Kong: photo by Jean-Sebastien David, 2 September 2015
![Untitled | by sasistudios]()
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 12 November 2017
![The pleasures of the flesh | by efo]()
The pleasures of the flesh: photo by efo, 9 December 2015
![86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976 | by M. Chaussettes]()
86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976: photo by M. Chaussettes, 13 December 2017
![86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976 | by M. Chaussettes]()
86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976: photo by M. Chaussettes, 13 December 2017
![86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976 | by M. Chaussettes]()
86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976: photo by M. Chaussettes, 13 December 2017
![Father Time | by DonStevie]()
Father Time | London, England: photo by DonStevie, August 2016
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
; Istanbul | “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”― Confucius: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 5 December 2017
![WAITING DOG | by LitterART]()
WAITING DOG | Neuberg, Styria, Austria: photo by LitterART, 11 December 2015
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
; Morocco 2017 | “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”― Garrison Keillor: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 12 December 2017
![Untitled | by sasistudios]()
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 9 December 2015
![Untitled | by adrian_t]()
Untitled [Kiev]: photo by Adrian Tsim, 7 December 2015
![Frosty Fog Alders | by Nicholas Lyle]()
Frosty Fog Alders: photo by Nick Lyle, 11 December 2017
![Frosty Fog Alders | by Nicholas Lyle]()
Frosty Fog Alders: photo by Nick Lyle, 11 December 2017
![Frosty Fog Alders | by Nicholas Lyle]()
Frosty Fog Alders: photo by Nick Lyle, 11 December 2017
![Crescent Street, Montreal, 1983 | by Avard Woolaver]()
Crescent Street, Montreal, 1983. No filters, no phone | There was no direction home | Only the moment: photo by Avard Woolaver, sometime in 1983
![Untitled | by sasistudios]()
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 December 2017
![Meanwhile at home: February 2017 | by Roccantica]()
Meanwhile at home: February 2017: photo by Roccantica, 28 February 2017
![Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA | by Rex Mandel]()
Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA. These kids were looking for something to photograph with their iPads. Yeah, a little ironic.Fuck you Donald Trump. You don't have the guts to call out hate groups. You're the biggest coward in the world.: photo by Rex Mandel, 3 May 2016
![Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA | by Rex Mandel]()
Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA. These kids were looking for something to photograph with their iPads. Yeah, a little ironic.Fuck you Donald Trump. You don't have the guts to call out hate groups. You're the biggest coward in the world.: photo by Rex Mandel, 3 May 2016
![Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA | by Rex Mandel]()
You get what you pay for | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 14 December 2017
![You get what you pay for | by michaelj1998]()
You get what you pay for | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 14 December 2017
![You get what you pay for | by michaelj1998]()
![Imagined 53 | by Desperate John]()
Imagined 53: photo by Desperate John, 14December 2017
![Imagined 53 | by Desperate John]()
Imagined 53: photo by Desperate John, 14December 2017
![Imagined 53 | by Desperate John]()
Imagined 53: photo by Desperate John, 14December 2017
![CARNIVAL WOMAN - 1953 | by johnmike1959]()
CARNIVAL WOMAN - 1953| photo by Jack Welpott: image by johnmike1969, 2 December 2017
![IMG_4041 | by alberto.velardi]()
IMG_4041: photo by ALBERTO VELARDI,9December 2017
![IMG_4041 | by alberto.velardi]()
IMG_4041: photo by ALBERTO VELARDI,9December 2017
![IMG_4041 | by alberto.velardi]()
IMG_4041: photo by ALBERTO VELARDI,9December 2017
![Untitled | by l'autre hidalgo]()
Untitled: photo by lautrehidalgo, 11 December 2017
Ni par l'aveugle poignard des roches,
ni par la plus creusante tempête
tournant des paquets de feuilles à la fois,
ni par l'œil attentif de l'homme employé avec peine
et d'ailleurs sans contrôle
dans un milieu interdit aux orifices débouchés des autres sens
et qu'un bras plongé pour saisir trouble plus encore,
ce livre au fond n'a été lu.
Francis Ponge
![Harmony | by michaelj1998]()
![2017-163 | by biosfear]()
2017-163| Los Angeles, CA.: photo by biosfear, December 2017
![As seen from afar | by michaelj1998]()
As seen from afar| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 16 December 2017
![As seen from afar | by michaelj1998]()
As seen from afar| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 16 December 2017
![As seen from afar | by michaelj1998]()
As seen from afar| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 16 December 2017
![Harrison Street, San Francisco | by Postcards from San Francisco]()
Harrison Street, San Francisco: photo by Patrick Vennari, 11 December 2017
![Harrison Street, San Francisco | by Postcards from San Francisco]()
Harrison Street, San Francisco: photo by Patrick Vennari, 11 December 2017
![Harrison Street, San Francisco | by Postcards from San Francisco]()
Harrison Street, San Francisco: photo by Patrick Vennari, 11 December 2017
![Vác, Hungary, 2017 | by tamas bernath]()
Vác Hungary, 2017: photo by tamas bernath, 21 November 2017
![Poor Clarence | by richham14 - (Mr Cubs}]()
Poor Clarence [Lone Pine, CA}: photo by Richard Hammond, 9 December 2017
![On the roof | by efo]()
On the roof | Djupavik [Iceland]: photo by efo, 2December 2017
![On the roof | by efo]()
On the roof | Djupavik [Iceland]: photo by efo, 2December 2017
![On the roof | by efo]()
On the roof | Djupavik [Iceland]: photo by efo, 2December 2017
![Bangkok, Thailand | by Dave Glass . foto]()
Bangkok, Thailand |Near the Grand Palace in the Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand 1986: photo by Dave Glass, December 1986
![Bangkok, Thailand | by Dave Glass . foto]()
![Bangkok, Thailand | by Dave Glass . foto]()
Bangkok, Thailand |Near the Grand Palace in the Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand 1986: photo by Dave Glass, December 1986
![Japanese aerial photo of Pearl Harbor during the attack on December 7th, 1941 | by MichaelRyerson]()
Japanese aerial photo of attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. Diamondhead far horizon background right.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 12 December2017
![Japanese aerial photo of Pearl Harbor during the attack on December 7th, 1941 | by MichaelRyerson]()
Japanese aerial photo of attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. Diamondhead far horizon background right.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 12 December2017
![Japanese aerial photo of Pearl Harbor during the attack on December 7th, 1941 | by MichaelRyerson]()
Japanese aerial photo of attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. Diamondhead far horizon background right.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 12 December2017
![Under the Fremont | by TimVo]()
Under the Fremont: photo by TimVo, 15 December1986
a blistering cold wind battering down the ghost freeway feeder @1:10 in the a.
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Thoughtful Buster. Buster Keaton in momentary repose. Appears to be post-war.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 16 December 2017
Hong-Kong: photo by Jean-Sebastien David, 2 September 2015
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 12 November 2017
The pleasures of the flesh: photo by efo, 9 December 2015
86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976: photo by M. Chaussettes, 13 December 2017
86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976: photo by M. Chaussettes, 13 December 2017
86th Street Crosstown Bus, New York, NY 1976: photo by M. Chaussettes, 13 December 2017
Father Time | London, England: photo by DonStevie, August 2016
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/](http://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4566/27088895319_09049f6ffc_z.jpg)
; Istanbul | “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”― Confucius: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 5 December 2017
WAITING DOG | Neuberg, Styria, Austria: photo by LitterART, 11 December 2015
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/](http://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4585/27245495699_8e3fc9ae9f_b.jpg)
; Morocco 2017 | “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”― Garrison Keillor: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 12 December 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 9 December 2015
Untitled [Kiev]: photo by Adrian Tsim, 7 December 2015
Frosty Fog Alders: photo by Nick Lyle, 11 December 2017
Frosty Fog Alders: photo by Nick Lyle, 11 December 2017
Frosty Fog Alders: photo by Nick Lyle, 11 December 2017
Crescent Street, Montreal, 1983. No filters, no phone | There was no direction home | Only the moment: photo by Avard Woolaver, sometime in 1983
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 December 2017
Meanwhile at home: February 2017: photo by Roccantica, 28 February 2017
Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA. These kids were looking for something to photograph with their iPads. Yeah, a little ironic.Fuck you Donald Trump. You don't have the guts to call out hate groups. You're the biggest coward in the world.: photo by Rex Mandel, 3 May 2016
Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA. These kids were looking for something to photograph with their iPads. Yeah, a little ironic.Fuck you Donald Trump. You don't have the guts to call out hate groups. You're the biggest coward in the world.: photo by Rex Mandel, 3 May 2016
Sixth Graders from Giannini Middle School, Outer Sunset District - San Francisco, CA. These kids were looking for something to photograph with their iPads. Yeah, a little ironic.Fuck you Donald Trump. You don't have the guts to call out hate groups. You're the biggest coward in the world.: photo by Rex Mandel, 3 May 2016
![You get what you pay for | by michaelj1998]()
You get what you pay for | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 14 December 2017
You get what you pay for | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 14 December 2017
You get what you pay for | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 14 December 2017
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
; Ethiopia 2017 | “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”― Anne Frank: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 18 December 2017
![Untitled | by sasistudios]()
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 16 December 2017
![Meanwhile at home | by Roccantica]()
Meanwhile at home: photo by Roccantica, 25 February 2008
![illegal gold mine !!! | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
illegal gold mine!!! Mongolia |'Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.'-- Erich Fromm: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 15 December 2017
![Untitled | by sasistudios]()
![Untitled | by sasistudios]()
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/](http://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4646/25260681388_e0f16bf5ec_b.jpg)
; Ethiopia 2017 | “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”― Anne Frank: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 18 December 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 16 December 2017
Meanwhile at home: photo by Roccantica, 25 February 2008
illegal gold mine!!! Mongolia |'Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.'-- Erich Fromm: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 15 December 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 11 December 2017
![Family days... | by Roccantica]()
family days...: photo by Roccantica, 12 March 2011
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
; Tsaatan family, Mongolia | 'I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now .'– C.J. Heck: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 7 December 2017
family days...: photo by Roccantica, 12 March 2011
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/](http://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4557/38907550551_d39c3b90a6_b.jpg)
; Tsaatan family, Mongolia | 'I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now .'– C.J. Heck: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 7 December 2017
Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 13 November 2017
Imagined 53: photo by Desperate John, 14December 2017
Imagined 53: photo by Desperate John, 14December 2017
Imagined 53: photo by Desperate John, 14December 2017
CARNIVAL WOMAN - 1953| photo by Jack Welpott: image by johnmike1969, 2 December 2017
IMG_4041: photo by ALBERTO VELARDI,9December 2017
IMG_4041: photo by ALBERTO VELARDI,9December 2017
IMG_4041: photo by ALBERTO VELARDI,9December 2017
Untitled: photo by lautrehidalgo, 11 December 2017
Ni par l'aveugle poignard des roches,
ni par la plus creusante tempête
tournant des paquets de feuilles à la fois,
ni par l'œil attentif de l'homme employé avec peine
et d'ailleurs sans contrôle
dans un milieu interdit aux orifices débouchés des autres sens
et qu'un bras plongé pour saisir trouble plus encore,
ce livre au fond n'a été lu.
Francis Ponge
Harmony| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 21 November 2017
![Harmony | by michaelj1998]()
Harmony| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 21 November 2017
![Harmony | by michaelj1998]()
Harmony| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 21 November 2017
Harmony| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 21 November 2017
Harmony| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 21 November 2017
2017-163| Los Angeles, CA.: photo by biosfear, December 2017
As seen from afar| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 16 December 2017
As seen from afar| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 16 December 2017
As seen from afar| Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 16 December 2017
Harrison Street, San Francisco: photo by Patrick Vennari, 11 December 2017
Harrison Street, San Francisco: photo by Patrick Vennari, 11 December 2017
Harrison Street, San Francisco: photo by Patrick Vennari, 11 December 2017
Vác Hungary, 2017: photo by tamas bernath, 21 November 2017
Poor Clarence [Lone Pine, CA}: photo by Richard Hammond, 9 December 2017
On the roof | Djupavik [Iceland]: photo by efo, 2December 2017
On the roof | Djupavik [Iceland]: photo by efo, 2December 2017
On the roof | Djupavik [Iceland]: photo by efo, 2December 2017
Bangkok, Thailand |Near the Grand Palace in the Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand 1986: photo by Dave Glass, December 1986
Bangkok, Thailand |Near the Grand Palace in the Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand 1986: photo by Dave Glass, December 1986
Japanese aerial photo of attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. Diamondhead far horizon background right.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 12 December2017
Japanese aerial photo of attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. Diamondhead far horizon background right.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 12 December2017
Japanese aerial photo of attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941. Diamondhead far horizon background right.: photo by Michael Ryerson, 12 December2017
Under the Fremont: photo by TimVo, 15 December1986
one more saturday night
a blistering cold wind battering down the ghost freeway feeder @1:10 in the a.
m. as the year dies in branch sparking high voltage lines on the trans
former out front and somewhere under the now vacant house next door
the ferals are cowering, when last seen
spotty boy's closed (infected) left eye looked as big as the knot on the side
of dildar's eye after she was clubbed by the mindfulness machete gangsters
and they've taken away the planter box on the upper porch where his hunched
white spine poked out, in those last days
last days hard upon other last days
"let me enter unto no more last days
than already obligated"
spotty boy might have been thinking
when though smaller of girth he drove away
his own son blackie
in an act of paternal rejection characteristic of street post civilization
survivalist milieux blistering winds rickety steps wandering souls haunted houses
feral cats
blackie came, cried a bit, left "he is so fat"
- Angelica Bygum twixt choking coffs in the tubercular ward by the free
way, feeder of ghost cats benefactress
("Someone around here is so
aching to transition")
former out front and somewhere under the now vacant house next door
the ferals are cowering, when last seen
spotty boy's closed (infected) left eye looked as big as the knot on the side
of dildar's eye after she was clubbed by the mindfulness machete gangsters
and they've taken away the planter box on the upper porch where his hunched
white spine poked out, in those last days
last days hard upon other last days
"let me enter unto no more last days
than already obligated"
spotty boy might have been thinking
when though smaller of girth he drove away
his own son blackie
in an act of paternal rejection characteristic of street post civilization
survivalist milieux blistering winds rickety steps wandering souls haunted houses
feral cats
blackie came, cried a bit, left "he is so fat"
- Angelica Bygum twixt choking coffs in the tubercular ward by the free
way, feeder of ghost cats benefactress
("Someone around here is so
aching to transition")
The Behrman family say goodbye to their home after it was destroyed by the #ThomasFire. They stopped by to retrieve their belongings, thanked the firefighters, spoke to reporters and left in the cover of darkness. Breaks my heart seeing this.: photo by Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 17 December 2017
Spanish tiles hang from a home on Park Hill Lane that was destroyed by the Thomas fire in Montecito, Calif.: photo by Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 17 December 2017
![Snow by raworth.]()
Snow (18.12.09) [Brighton]: photo by Tom Raworth, 2009I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, "Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk so thin!"
For then I, undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.
But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide.
![Boxing Day Dawn by raworth.]()
Boxing Day Dawn (26.12.09): photo by Tom Raworth, 2009
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
;] Brighton2017 |“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”― William Penn: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 3 December 2017
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/]()
;] Poland|'Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone..'– Andy Biersack: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 10 December 2017
![File:Goldfinch New Zealand.jpg]()
European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), Dunedin, New Zealand: photo by Benchill, 13 October 2007
Thomas Hardy: I Look Into My Glass
Snow (18.12.09) [Brighton]: photo by Tom Raworth, 2009
And view my wasting skin,
And say, "Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk so thin!"
For then I, undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.
But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide;
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide.
Boxing Day Dawn (26.12.09): photo by Tom Raworth, 2009
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/](http://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4574/27046734179_2203563014_b.jpg)
;] Brighton2017 |“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”― William Penn: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 3 December 2017
![;] | by www.bawgaj.eu /Brighton now/](http://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4528/27199172849_05b169c295_b.jpg)
;] Poland|'Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone..'– Andy Biersack: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 10 December 2017
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):I Look Into My Glass, from Wessex Poems (1898)
Thomas Hardy: The Caged Goldfinch
European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), Dunedin, New Zealand: photo by Benchill, 13 October 2007
Within a churchyard, on a recent grave,
I saw a little cage
That jailed a goldfinch. All was silence save
Its hops from stage to stage.
There was inquiry in its wistful eye,
And once it tried to sing;
Of him or her who placed it there, and why,
No one knew anything.
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European Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis): photo by Monster 2000, 2008
![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%B2_%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5.jpg/1024px-%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%B2_%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5.jpg]()
European Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) in February, Moscow region: photo by Villa16, February 2009
![File:Carduelishembrabebiendo.jpg]()
Spanish Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis parva), looking for water, Sevilla: photo by Fernando Zamora, 15 January 2008
![File:Carduelis caniceps F.JPG]()
I saw a little cage
That jailed a goldfinch. All was silence save
Its hops from stage to stage.
There was inquiry in its wistful eye,
And once it tried to sing;
Of him or her who placed it there, and why,
No one knew anything.
European Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis): photo by Monster 2000, 2008
European Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) in February, Moscow region: photo by Villa16, February 2009
Spanish Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis parva), looking for water, Sevilla: photo by Fernando Zamora, 15 January 2008
European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis caniceps), female, caged: photo by Freegiampi, 20 August 2006
ThomasHardy (1840-1928): TheCagedGoldfinch, from Moments of Vision (1917)
Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Turdus_viscivorus_-England-8.jpg/1024px-Turdus_viscivorus_-England-8.jpg]()
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorous), England: photo by jo-h, 5 December 2010
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): The Darkling Thrush, 31 December 1900 (originally published as By the Century's Deathbed in The Times, 1 January 1901), from Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Turdus_viscivorus02.jpg/1024px-Turdus_viscivorus02.jpg]()
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorous), St. Johann, Styria, Austria: photo by Kurt Kulac, 24 January 2009
![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Turdus_viscivorus_-Netherlands-8.jpg/1109px-Turdus_viscivorus_-Netherlands-8.jpg]()
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorous), England: photo by jo-h, 5 December 2010
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
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.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): The Darkling Thrush, 31 December 1900 (originally published as By the Century's Deathbed in The Times, 1 January 1901), from Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorous), St. Johann, Styria, Austria: photo by Kurt Kulac, 24 January 2009
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorous), the Netherlands: photo by Gerard Blokhuis, 14 February 2010
![http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Turdus_viscivorus_in_Baikonur-town_002.jpg/1024px-Turdus_viscivorus_in_Baikonur-town_002.jpg]()
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) in Baikonur-town, Kazakhstan: photo by Yuriy75, December 2009
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Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus viscivorus) singing near Germering in Bavaria: photo by N p Holmes, 28 February 2009
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The male Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus viscivorus) passed some earthworms to the female as a gesture of closeness. The female tasted one piece and thereafter the male fed the fledglings.: photo by T. Voekler, 25 April 2008
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DSC06149-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 11 December 2017
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DSC06149-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 11 December 2017
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DSC06149-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 11 December 2017
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) in Baikonur-town, Kazakhstan: photo by Yuriy75, December 2009
Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus viscivorus) singing near Germering in Bavaria: photo by N p Holmes, 28 February 2009
The male Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus viscivorus) passed some earthworms to the female as a gesture of closeness. The female tasted one piece and thereafter the male fed the fledglings.: photo by T. Voekler, 25 April 2008
DSC06149-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 11 December 2017
DSC06149-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 11 December 2017
DSC06149-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 11 December 2017