Potential Titles: Snake
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somethingdarkerEaten by snakes and crocodiles - Rasha Abdulhadi "Young Adult Catalogue"
Lizards snaked around the calendar - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"
The caresses of a snake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
Mist snakes the mountains - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Just enough to tempt the snake - Paul Bernstein "Skin Deep"
Abandon the eagle for vulture or snake - "Blue Jackets, Fall In!" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Feed the snakes nothing - May Chong "Catering"
The flick of snake in our eyes - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"
The hooded snake that drew and watched - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
The fragile delicacy of a charcoal snake - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"
Snakes the color of wood ash or fresh dark - Tyree Daye "Town Day on the Hill"
Shorter than a snake's delay - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXV: The Mushroom"
A snake is summer's treason - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIX: A Snake"
Control the will of snake - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
A marshland of snakes - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
The way a snake bites its tail - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
His fist like a twisted snake - John Gould Fletcher "An Actor"
No songs for the snakes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
The hollow crackle of hatching snakes - Carolyn Forche "Taproot"
Choke down snake of shame - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"
Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Glory is a golden snake around Life's tree - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"
The snake had gone back to the hills - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
The sick hart eats a snake - Barten Holyday "Distiches"
The snake that spirals terror - Langston Hughes "Desert"
Like a steep shower of snakes - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"
With Paradise devise the Snake - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Like speckled snake that strays and shines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
A snake in supreme bitterness - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Walking like a royal snake - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Writhing upward like a trodden snake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Abraham Carew"
Like a snake inert and blue - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Of battlefields like tangled snakes - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Mixed to write them saint or snake - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"
Where the tiger claws the snake - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Snake with a circle of fire - W.S. Merwin "The Stranger"
A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"
In the combined livery of bird plus snake - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"
Slander's snakes within the verdure lurk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Petals wound with snakes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
two entwined snakes and a lyre - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
A captured snake in a hot meadow - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Their joy recalls no snake, no sword - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
And e'en in Eden flirted with the Snake - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
In its talons the striking snake - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
That snakes and ladders to its shaky start - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
And an indigo snake around my neck - Frank Stanford "The Cape"
Like a trodden snake you turned - Muriel Stuart "The Father"
Breathed by the snake of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 206: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
On the tender tongue of the little snakes - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
In gardens pastored by snakes - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Speckled snake that strays and shines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"
Who sailed in a snake-prowed galley - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"
Tape snaking through a stealth machine - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"
New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"
Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"
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Lizards snaked around the calendar - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"
The caresses of a snake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
Mist snakes the mountains - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Just enough to tempt the snake - Paul Bernstein "Skin Deep"
Abandon the eagle for vulture or snake - "Blue Jackets, Fall In!" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Feed the snakes nothing - May Chong "Catering"
The flick of snake in our eyes - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"
The hooded snake that drew and watched - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
The fragile delicacy of a charcoal snake - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"
Snakes the color of wood ash or fresh dark - Tyree Daye "Town Day on the Hill"
Shorter than a snake's delay - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXV: The Mushroom"
A snake is summer's treason - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIX: A Snake"
Control the will of snake - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
A marshland of snakes - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
The way a snake bites its tail - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
His fist like a twisted snake - John Gould Fletcher "An Actor"
No songs for the snakes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
The hollow crackle of hatching snakes - Carolyn Forche "Taproot"
Choke down snake of shame - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"
Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Glory is a golden snake around Life's tree - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"
The snake had gone back to the hills - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
The sick hart eats a snake - Barten Holyday "Distiches"
The snake that spirals terror - Langston Hughes "Desert"
Like a steep shower of snakes - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"
With Paradise devise the Snake - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Like speckled snake that strays and shines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
A snake in supreme bitterness - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Walking like a royal snake - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Writhing upward like a trodden snake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Abraham Carew"
Like a snake inert and blue - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"
Of battlefields like tangled snakes - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Mixed to write them saint or snake - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"
Where the tiger claws the snake - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Snake with a circle of fire - W.S. Merwin "The Stranger"
A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"
In the combined livery of bird plus snake - Marianne Moore "Like a Bulrush"
Slander's snakes within the verdure lurk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Petals wound with snakes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
two entwined snakes and a lyre - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
A captured snake in a hot meadow - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Their joy recalls no snake, no sword - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Firelight"
And e'en in Eden flirted with the Snake - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
In its talons the striking snake - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
That snakes and ladders to its shaky start - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
And an indigo snake around my neck - Frank Stanford "The Cape"
Like a trodden snake you turned - Muriel Stuart "The Father"
Breathed by the snake of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 206: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
On the tender tongue of the little snakes - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
In gardens pastored by snakes - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Speckled snake that strays and shines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"
Who sailed in a snake-prowed galley - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"
Tape snaking through a stealth machine - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"
New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"
Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"
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Go to Potential Titles: Reptiles and Amphibians [category].
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