| Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921. | | | | “Upon This Wild Headland” | | By Apollon Maikov (1821–1897) |
| | | UPON this wild headland, crowned meanly with indigent rushes | |
| And withering bush and the pitiful green of the pinetrees, | |
| The aged Meniskos, a sorrowful fisherman laid | |
| His son who had perished. His youth the sea, motherwise, nurtured, | |
| That sea whose wide lap took him back, who resistlessly bore him | 5 |
| In death, and who carefully carried the young body shoreward. | |
| Then mourning Meniskos went forth, and beneath the great willow | |
| He dug him a grave, a plain stone he set for a mark on the cliff-side, | |
| And hung overhead a coarse net he had woven of willow,— | |
| A fisherman’s wreath to be poverty’s bitter memento. | 10 | | | |
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