Canto V: ‘To-day was a beautiful day, the sky was a brilliant’  34193

Locations in Harold's Library

• Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems (book)
  • page 109
  • in "Autumn Journal (1939)"
• London: A History in Verse (book) (excerpt only)

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