Potential Titles: Attain

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Attains his desire by inquiry - Yusuf Has Hajib Balasaghuni "Wisdom of Royal Glory (1) [excerpts from Kutadgu Bilig]" transl. by Ajinur Setiwaldi

Attain those far celestial citadels - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Has not attained his noon - Robert Herrick "To Daffodils"

That drinks forevermore without attaining equilibrium - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

Unable to attain the trophy - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

A destination only until attained - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"

Some starlike aspiration to attain - Effie Smith "The Recompense"

No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"

Attain the boundary of his brilliance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


The dangerous sounds of unattained realities - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

Eroding edge of unattainable sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen G"

Dreaming of far-off, unattainable delight - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]


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