Yvor Winters Quote

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
Green as a bough of yew the beard;
He bent his head, and so I smote


Collected poems (ed. 1960)


Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote