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

The Gentle Man

William Carlos Williams

From “Broken Windows”

I FEEL the caress of my own fingers

On my own neck as I place my collar

And think pityingly of the kind

Women I have known.