Potential Titles: Brink
Feb. 7th, 2010 04:38 pmStanding 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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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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