| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Below the Sultry Storm” | | By Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) |
| | | BELOW the sultry storm that seemed to lower, | |
| An alien force, again I heard the call | |
| Of my mysterious mate: the prisoned power | |
| Of old dreams flared and flickered in its fall. | |
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| And with a cry of horror and of dolor— | 5 |
| As of an eagle in an iron vise— | |
| My spirit shook its cage in quivering choler, | |
| And tore the net, and issued to the skies. | |
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| And up behind the clouds, unswerving, bearing,— | |
| Before the miracles—a flaming sea— | 10 |
| Within the shining sanctum briefly flaring, | |
| It vanished into white infinity. | | | | |
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