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I have fallen in love with American names, (Stephen Vincent Ben?t (1898-1943), U.S. poet. American Names (l. 1). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn, (Stephen Vincent Ben?t (1898-1943), U.S. poet. American Names (l. 6-7). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet, The lank man, knotty and tough as a hickory rail, Whose hands were always too big for white-kid gloves, Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales, Whose weathered face was homely as a plowed field. (Stephen Vincent Ben?t (1898-1943), U.S. novelist, poet. John Brown's Body (1928).)
I am tired of loving a foreign muse. (Stephen Vincent Ben?t (1898-1943), U.S. poet. American Names (l. 20). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)