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Standing upon the awful brink - A.L.O.E. "Death-Bed Hymn"

Plunging from the brink of light and being - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

I shall wander on the starry brink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"

To frolic on eternity's dread brink - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Wavering on the sudden brink of jaded bitterness - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Orrick Johns"

Driven to misery's brink - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Ancient eagles on its brink - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Who paces round the brink - Edward Dowden "The Pool"

And starred hibiscus to the brink - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

On the brink of losing my form - Cheryl Dumesnil "Prayer for Beginning"

Fluted brinks of obsidian - Santee Frazier "Fugal"

The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Waft us to the whirlpool's brink - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

From the dizzy brink recoil - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Shared my lonely walk on this tremendous brink - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Hung above the brink of winter - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

Must we hover on the brink forever - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Blossoms at the brink of night - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

Quit this perilous brink - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

The brink of leaden waters - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Lethe"

On the brink of the great waters - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Into a torpor on the brink of thought - Harold Monro "Journey"

And can not tell what waits us at the brink - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Even to the brink of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Swept beyond the brink of Sense - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Marks the brink of doubt - A.E. Stallings "Blackbird Etude"

Nudging towards the brinks - A.E. Stallings "Hangup"

In question at oblivion's brink - George Sterling "Norman Boyer"

That sings in the sun to the brink of Heaven - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"

As the hunter will pause on the precipice brink - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

At the hushed brink of twilight - William Watson "The Frontier"

On the brink of something brilliant - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"

Rose hedges to the very water's brink - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Wooed from the moon's brink - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

From the moon's brink - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"


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