Potential Titles: Nigh

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Nigh to all who dwell in sweet accord - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

When the dreaded day draws nigh - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Nigh impossible to staunch avarice - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

And half my course is well-nigh run - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Well-nigh extinct under man's fickle care - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"


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