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  • Witter Bynner said that she had a "frontier libido."

    Oddballs in the Desert 2008

  • Throughout this period, she continued to have several affairs, first with a French violinist, that led to an abortion, and then with the poet Witter Bynner.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay greenintegerblog 2008

  • This admiration became one of her links with Witter Bynner, a distinguished Harvard-educated academic and minor New Mexican poet who had traveled in China, translated Chinese poetry, and collected Chinese art.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • He also knew Mexico well, having been there in 1922 with his friends Witter Bynner and Frieda and D. H. Lawrence.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

  • Witter Bynner is said to have worked off a pretty good one at the

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

  • Some of the writers round about -- Arthur Guiterman or Tom Masson or Witter Bynner or Tom Daly, or some of these chaps now sitting down to combination-plate luncheons and getting off all manner of merry quips and confidential matters -- some of these chaps may be famous some day

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • Mr. Ficke has also written two volumes upon “Japanese Painting” and “Japanese Prints, ” in part the outcome of a trip to Japan, taken in company with his friend Witter Bynner.

    Biographical Notes. Jessie B 1922

  • China and Japan have suddenly been discovered again by Miss Lowell and Mr. Lindsay and Witter Bynner and Eunice Tietjens and a dozen others; have been discovered to be rich treasuries of exquisite images, costumes, gestures, moods, emotions.

    Introduction 1920

  • I daresay the Knish-Morgan burlesque of Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke was a hard blow to the more fantastic radicals.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • To Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. for selections from “Songs from Vagabondia, ” “More Songs from Vagabondia, ” and “Last Songs from Vagabondia, ” by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey; “An Ode to Harvard, and Other Poems, ” by Witter Bynner; and “The Poet, the Fool, and the Fairies, ” by Madison Cawein.

    Acknowledgments Jessie Belle 1917

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