[PW] Poetry question, probably Australian

[Bye, Dan J]

I think you might find this is "The Snake" by the Australian writer Vance Palmer (1885-1959).  

Dan

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> Subject: Re: [PW] Poetry question, probably Australian
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> Peter wrote:
> ~~~~~~~~
> 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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