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Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck
and stroked your cold, pulsing throat
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. To the Snake (l. 1-2). . .
Poetry Anthology, The, 1912-1977. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi, eds. (1978) Houghton Mifflin Company.)
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Call me Snake.
(Nick Castle (b. 1947), U.S. screenwriter, and John Carpenter. S.D. "Snake" Plissken, Escape from New York, when meeting a government official who calls him Plissken—line repeated when Plissken meets others (1981).)
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There's a snake lurking in the grass.
(Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 B.C.), Roman poet. Eclogues, no. 3, l. 93 (37 B.C.).)
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And he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun
Is missing.
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet. Mr. Pope (l. 9-11). . .
Collected Poems, 1919-1976 [Allen Tate]. (1989) Louisiana State University Press.)
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
(Florence King (b. 1936), U.S. humorist, essayist, social critic. Lump It or Leave It, New York, St. Martin's Press (1990).)
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a shiver, a delight
that what is passing
is here, as if
a snake went by, green in the
gray leaves.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Coming Fall.")
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. II). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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Made of old rags of tongues,
of flesh slipped through the abortionist's knife
you snake thing....
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Snake.")
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The dawn alps,
the stilled snake of
river asleep in its
wide bed ...
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Perspectives.")
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I fear me you but warm the starvèd snake,
Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. York, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 3, sc. 1, l. 343-4.
Plotting rebellion.)
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