Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost…”
The opening converts a winter landscape into an image of exhaustion and ending, establishing the bleak scene against which the later thrush song becomes striking.
Where does it come from?
“The Darkling Thrush,” collected in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. The poem first appeared at the turn of the century; this collection uses the represented collection as source identity.
