Related Clues:

• States boldly
• Asserts confidently
• Says with confidence
• Declares a piece of poetry 'inadequate'
• States reluctant to drop English, finally
• Declares to be the case
• Claims to be true
• Professes to be true
• Forthrightly asserts
• Brief work by bard on American states
• Swears, loath to drop last sweetheart