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

The Ides of March

H. C. Long

JUST as, amid cabals of his treacherous court,

Suspecting each rich curtain of a knife,

A king broods heavily,

Even so, aware that flesh and bone are restless

With secret news and undefined intention,

Sits on his shaking throne my winter soul.