Still Falls the Rain  11885

Locations in Harold's Library

• The New Oxford Book of War Poetry (book)
• Edith Sitwell: Collected Poems (book)
  • page 272
  • in "Later Poems (from 1940 onwards), Part II"
• Poetry of the Second World War (book)
  • page 63
  • in "III: 'Boswell by my bed, Tolstoy on my table'"

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• Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op.55, music by Benjamin Britten, words by Edith Sitwell

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