<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367998" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Snake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck<br>and stroked your cold, pulsing throat<br>as you hissed to me, glinting<br>arrowy gold scales, and I felt<br>the weight of you on my shoulders,<br>and the whispering silver of your dryness<br>sounded close at my ears --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Green Snake--I swore to my companions that certainly<br>you were harmless! But truly<br>I had no certainty, and no hope, only desiring<br>to hold you, for that joy, <br>which left<br>a long wake of pleasure, as the leaves moved<br>and you faded into the pattern<br>of grass and shadows, and I returned<br>smiling and haunted, to a dark morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denise+Levertov">Denise Levertov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367998" data-title="To the Snake de Denise Levertov" data-description="Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck and stroked your cold, pulsing throat as you hissed to me, glinting arrowy gold scales, and I felt the weight of you on my shoulders, and the whispering silver of your dryness sounded close at my ears -- ..."></div> </div> </div>

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