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"

From core to verge only attains to aspire - Bliss Carman "Seven Things"

Fought to attain a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"

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"

Or by theft attain the jail - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

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


Unattainable.


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