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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have foreknown thee! Oh, I have foreknown thee Last Line: Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Facades; Shadows; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares; Appearances | |||
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. Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. 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. The farthest sky is glowing! Nearer looms the splendor! Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TRANSPOSITIONS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON PEOPLE'S SURROUNDINGS by MARIANNE MOORE APPEARANCE AND REALITY by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER NURSING HOME: THE DOLL by KAREN SWENSON OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW by KAREN SWENSON ON SOMETHING THAT WALKS SOMEWHERE by BEN JONSON BLACK GIRL by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS THE FASHION by JOSEPH BEAUMONT VILLAGE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN ARTIST by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK |
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