[PW] Poetry question, probably Australian

[Edward Franchuk]

Peter wrote:
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I seem to recall studying two contrasting poems on snakes at school, one by D H Lawrence and one by Judith Wright, but that is an unreliable memoir of a distant past. I am having no luck with the usual searches. The poem begins; "I killed a snake this morning in the grassA lovely sinister thing of gleaming jetI see it yet, gliding across the place my feet would pass......"~~~~~~~~
The Lawrence poem is undoubtedly "Snake": http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1282.html
but it doesn't contain anything like the lines cited: it is about *not* killing a snake.  The Wright poem is probably "The Killer": 
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/33277-Judith-Wright-The-Killer
but it doesn't contain lines similar to those quoted either.
 
Googling on the quoted lines turned up nothing, I'm afraid.
 
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