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

In this most awful secret laboratory - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

And hang fresh wreaths round Newton's awful brow - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Might dignify Minerva's awful charms - James Beattie "To the Right Honourable Lady Charlotte Gordon, Dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet with Feathers, &c."

With steady eyes of awful friendship - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

With awful maledictions on the two who were such fools - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

A glitter of awful gold steals me - Paul Cameron Brown "Green Eye Shields"

In spasms of awful sunshine - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Wrinkled suns in awful blackness swim - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

An awful flash in heaven burning - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

That rose of awful mystery - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"

Could match its awful visage - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

In a grand and awful time - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"

Beneath whose awful sword rebellion crouch'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

The awful convex dark - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"

Across the awful space that marks their course - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

The awful daring of a moment's surrender - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

The human cyclone's awful faces - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"

The shadow of the awful grove - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

And gazed upon the awful glare - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

The cruelty of its awful kiss - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"

Unveil her awful face - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Awful honour's consecrated shrine - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

And in her awful joy repeat - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"

And stayed his awful penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Over every awful kind of love - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

Filling with awful harmony the air - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"

Against the kind and awful reign - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV

By great winds in awful unison - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"

And awful silence of the sky - George Martin "Marguerite"

Seven stars bright with awful mystery - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"

This awful key to my infinity - Claude McKay "I Know My Soul"

A shrine of cloudy fire flamed redly awful - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

With the growth of awful ages crowned - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

As he reels upon his awful quest - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"

The deep shall thunder its awful chant - Theodore H. Rand "A Red Sunrise"

Awful bridge rising over naked air - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Kindle their numb and awful apathy - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Bar the awful avenues of Space - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"

Whatever the awful silence must surely have revealed - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

That remember not their awful thrones - William Watson "History"

In their awful gloom were drowned - Arthur Weir "The Secret of the Saguenay"

The awful air that flows unbounded - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"


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