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

Boatman

Jessica Nelson North

From “At Night”

BOATMAN, leaning on your pole on the Secret River,

Will you tarry for a soul who never knew a lover?

She is very young and cold, her beauty makes me shiver.

I will give you coins of gold to take her softly over.