Potential Titles: Serpent
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somethingdarkerThe serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
Serpent belts that coil and play - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The serpent of history - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"
Nor serpent's eye, nor siren's lute - Benjamin West Ball "To --"
Wizard Envy from his serpent eye - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Toads and serpents of most deadly kind - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Like a serpent curled in sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
As the eye and the tongue of the serpent - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
As a serpent coils into a flower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
Scripture of the serpent and the dove - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
A garden which no serpent seeks - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Serpent grief that coiled and threw - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
Spectre cannot harm, serpent cannot charm - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XL"
the metropolis is a labyrinth of serpents and ghouls - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
a labyrinth of serpents and ghouls - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Slayer of the serpent brood - Edward Dowden "To a Year"
Your court is a mighty serpent - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
A basilisk and a great serpent intertwined - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Enfolding from their serpent lair - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
For serpents lurk beneath its flowers - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Would have left the serpent out - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"
Serpents of fire in the dark ocean writhing - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
The slithering serpent of doubt - Edward Hirsch "Zora Neale Hurston"
With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
No subtile Serpents in the Grave betray - Anne Killigrew "On Death"
But dust that the serpents eat - Andrew Lang "The Bridge of Death"
Serpents' long obstinancy of horizontal persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
And a serpent was coiled about its stem - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Hidden serpent in a wreath of Eden - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Rippling iridescent serpents form - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
The thankless fretwork of the serpent - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman
Who put serpents in your Edens - Don Marquis "The Struggle"
The heel that crushed the serpent's head - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
Whose eyes have serpent's gleam - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Here serpents and owls from daylight hide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Through many a fen where the serpent feeds - Thomas Moore "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"
As coils a serpent round the escaping deer - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"
Nightmares with collectives of serpents - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
The serpents are asleep among the poppies - Sarojini Naidu "Leili"
Who with ax and serpent came - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf
Serpents of fire, men of dust - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The treacherous tail of the feudal serpent - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism (II)" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Go back north with your serpent's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Sadness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
a serpent coiling up getting thicker - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"
From skeletons of serpents - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"
The sting of serpent's subtlety - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
When her serpent tongue betrays her - M. Regan "The Hollow"
Gnashing of steel serpents twisting - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
The serpent's tooth saved Cleopatra - Lola Ridge "The Woman with Jewels"
And subtle serpents gliding in her hair - Christina Rossetti "The World"
Infatuating with its serpent glance - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
With red serpent on the water - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Twisting like a serpent's track - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
And taught the adolescent Serpent how to hiss - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
What in the serpent could o'er her prevail - "The Whore"
The fierce queen who with a serpent died - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"
Never swallow a serpent's spine - Felicia Zamora "Dear Coyote"
The curling paper serpent sheds his printed skin - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Where the coiled sea-serpents dwell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Serpent-furies coil'd around the maddening brain - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Slays the serpent-haired Medusa - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
References to the serpentine after - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"
That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Past the serpentine border of eels - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
The rhythms of serpentine rivers - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
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A mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
Serpent belts that coil and play - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The serpent of history - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"
Nor serpent's eye, nor siren's lute - Benjamin West Ball "To --"
Wizard Envy from his serpent eye - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Toads and serpents of most deadly kind - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Like a serpent curled in sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
As the eye and the tongue of the serpent - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
As a serpent coils into a flower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
Scripture of the serpent and the dove - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
A garden which no serpent seeks - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Serpent grief that coiled and threw - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
Spectre cannot harm, serpent cannot charm - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XL"
the metropolis is a labyrinth of serpents and ghouls - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
a labyrinth of serpents and ghouls - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Slayer of the serpent brood - Edward Dowden "To a Year"
Your court is a mighty serpent - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
A basilisk and a great serpent intertwined - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Enfolding from their serpent lair - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
For serpents lurk beneath its flowers - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Would have left the serpent out - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"
Serpents of fire in the dark ocean writhing - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
The slithering serpent of doubt - Edward Hirsch "Zora Neale Hurston"
With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
No subtile Serpents in the Grave betray - Anne Killigrew "On Death"
But dust that the serpents eat - Andrew Lang "The Bridge of Death"
Serpents' long obstinancy of horizontal persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
And a serpent was coiled about its stem - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Hidden serpent in a wreath of Eden - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Rippling iridescent serpents form - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
The thankless fretwork of the serpent - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman
Who put serpents in your Edens - Don Marquis "The Struggle"
The heel that crushed the serpent's head - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
Whose eyes have serpent's gleam - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Here serpents and owls from daylight hide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Through many a fen where the serpent feeds - Thomas Moore "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp"
As coils a serpent round the escaping deer - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"
Nightmares with collectives of serpents - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
The serpents are asleep among the poppies - Sarojini Naidu "Leili"
Who with ax and serpent came - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf
Serpents of fire, men of dust - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The treacherous tail of the feudal serpent - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism (II)" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Go back north with your serpent's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Sadness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
a serpent coiling up getting thicker - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"
From skeletons of serpents - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"
The sting of serpent's subtlety - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
When her serpent tongue betrays her - M. Regan "The Hollow"
Gnashing of steel serpents twisting - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
The serpent's tooth saved Cleopatra - Lola Ridge "The Woman with Jewels"
And subtle serpents gliding in her hair - Christina Rossetti "The World"
Infatuating with its serpent glance - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
With red serpent on the water - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Twisting like a serpent's track - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
And taught the adolescent Serpent how to hiss - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
What in the serpent could o'er her prevail - "The Whore"
The fierce queen who with a serpent died - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"
Never swallow a serpent's spine - Felicia Zamora "Dear Coyote"
The curling paper serpent sheds his printed skin - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Where the coiled sea-serpents dwell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"
Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Serpent-furies coil'd around the maddening brain - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Slays the serpent-haired Medusa - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
References to the serpentine after - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"
That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Past the serpentine border of eels - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
The rhythms of serpentine rivers - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Navigation Links:
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Go to Potential Titles: Reptiles and Amphibians [category].
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