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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Impotence

Nelson Antrim Crawford

From “Fragilities”

WHILE you lived

I could make you neither glad nor unhappy.

Now you are dead

I can neither lull nor awaken you.

Always I am impotent.