Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
With the WindKonstantin Balmont
Translated from the Russian by Edith Chapman Tracy
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Through the opaqueness of her earthly case she glitters like a sword.
She is free; she rides her body as the whirlwind the storm.
She is free from the death of the flesh.
As the flash of the outgoing sea-gull,
Or the slipping frigate!
She is the juggler who raises the dead,
With whom the spirits speak.
And drinks deep of the day.
And she casts herself on the wing of the wind,
Breasting the uppermost height.