Talisman

Under a splintered mast,
torn from ship and cast
              near her hull,

a stumbling shepherd found
embedded in the ground,
              a sea-gull

of lapis lazuli,
a scarab of the sea,
            with wings spread—

curling its coral feet,
parting its beak to greet
            men long dead.
 

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. 

About this Poem

“Talisman” was published in Poems (The Egoist Press, 1921).