| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | “All Roads Lead to Rome” | | By Louis Grudin |
| | | SHE bore the smear of insult on her face, | |
| And heard the ruffian voices, and the din | |
| Of penny horns and whistles that had been | |
| Her heart; and she knew only this disgrace— | |
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| That one had dressed her in a ragged gown. | 5 |
| Caesar had been met in various ways; | |
| Like thought too vast to feel or to erase, | |
| She knew the hosts of Rome were sweeping down | |
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| In various fashions Caesar had been met— | |
| With crimson violence or more brilliant lies, | 10 |
| The poisoned fang, or chain of chariot. | |
| She did not choose, but slain by her surprise, | |
| She could not see the choice that waited yet— | |
| The veiled, derisive, plebeian disguise. | | | | |
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