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Stephen Vincent Benet
(1898 - 1943 / Pennsylvania / United States)
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''I have fallen in love with American names,''
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Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943), U.S. poet. American Names (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford ...
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''Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,''
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Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943), U.S. poet. American Names (l. 6-7). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxfor...
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''I am tired of loving a foreign muse.''
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Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943), U.S. poet. American Names (l. 20). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford...
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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,...
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Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943), U.S. novelist, poet. John Brown's Body (1928).
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