Potential Titles: Obtain

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Not all my weeping might the gift obtain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Obtain such grace of hours - Robert Frost "Rose Pogonias"

To obtain the bays of conquest - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

In some gazette obtain alike an apotheosis and fane - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Obtain a mandate to unloose the chain - James Parkerson "On Mr. L---"

And Juno's bounty was not yet obtained - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

Obtained a new immortal nectar - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 38: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


Vague beloved unobtainable - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"


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