| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | The Unknown Woman | | By Alexander Blok (1880–1921) |
| | | I HAVE foreknown Thee! Oh, I have foreknown Thee. Going, | |
| The years have shown me Thy premonitory face. | |
| Intolerably clear, the farthest sky is glowing. | |
| I wait in silence Thy withheld and worshiped grace. | |
| The farthest sky is glowing: white for Thy appearing. | 5 |
| Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. | |
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| And insolent suspicion will rouse upon Thy nearing. | |
| The features long foreknown, beheld at last, will change. | |
| How shall I then be fallen!—low, with no defender: | |
| Dead dreams will conquer me; the glory, glimpsed, will change. | 10 |
| The farthest sky is glowing! Nearer looms the splendor! | |
| Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. | | | | |
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