Potential Titles: Viper

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A writhing knot of unclean vipers - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Hiss like Medusa's vipers in the breast - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

A bouquet of myrrh, viper flesh, & honey - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"

That like vipers start - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

By presence of viper and crown - Chip Livingston "San Benito"

The viper that swallows us living and whole - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Vipers assaulted by a water of hell - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Their crosses made of vipers - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Halls are laced with vipers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson


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