Potential Titles: Cause
Mar. 2nd, 2010 02:44 amOutside the possibility of human causation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
On the altar of our ineffable cause - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
A cause quilted with passion - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Till Thought and Purpose caused the void to leap - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Intertwining destiny testifying for a hopeless cause - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Proved by statistics that some cause was just - W.H. Auden "The Shield of Achilles"
Has caused the moment to harden - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"
Nostalgic for noble causes - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Abandoning the noble cause - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Since for this cause we crowned his head - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"
Submissive to your cause - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Which caused a shout of fear to rise - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
No cause will sever that bond which reunites - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"
Whene'er Venus' wiles caused thee to err - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Have caused full many to betray their friends - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In your cause exert my utmost vigour - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The cause of such behaviour is only custom - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Venus caused an intermingled stream of blood and tears - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Caused him to break the peace of kings - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gold, the cursed cause of all - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Abundant causes for misgiving and dismay - C. L. Graves "The Flapper"
Effect ordains Cause, head swallowing its tail - Robert Graves "The Dialecticians"
A clamor for their lost cause - Conrad Hilberry "Exits"
That cause the eye to quail - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
Causing a chain reaction of giant black holes - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Gallant toilers in a desperate cause - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"
Stout soldiers in a losing cause - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Would pause for an honorable cause - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"
With rational surveillance as its cause - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
On behalf of a thousand justifiable causes - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
A stainless cause and a dauntless fight - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
The spark to advance our cause - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Was this a cause for night to fetter me? - Kostes Palamas "The Holy Virgin in Hell" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Easy to blame the world's ills on a single cause - Josh Pearce "Plastic Paradise Awaits" [Strange Horizons 2 Feb. 2025]
The proximate cause of our present afflictions - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]
In the name and cause of law - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Fist"
Cause of my Woes, and Object of my hate - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
Chaos in the cause of paradise - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"
Causing the five peaks to tremble - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound
Which pressure causes metamorphoses, protostar pre-nucleosynthesis - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Its most mapless lost cause - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
This black-looking root is the cause - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Was ambitious to find out the cause of his bliss - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Enough lost causes to die for - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"
With all its angry and vehement play of causes - Walt Whitman "To Thee Old Causes"
Causing the sun to shine in his sphere - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Bad Disciple of a lost cause - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
If he knew what caused the winds to blow - Dennison Woodcock "A Life's Story: From One to Ninety-One"
Everything a field of energy caused by human projection - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"
The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
The invisible hides cause-and-effect - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
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On the altar of our ineffable cause - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
A cause quilted with passion - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Till Thought and Purpose caused the void to leap - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Intertwining destiny testifying for a hopeless cause - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Proved by statistics that some cause was just - W.H. Auden "The Shield of Achilles"
Has caused the moment to harden - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"
Nostalgic for noble causes - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Abandoning the noble cause - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Since for this cause we crowned his head - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"
Submissive to your cause - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Which caused a shout of fear to rise - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
No cause will sever that bond which reunites - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"
Whene'er Venus' wiles caused thee to err - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Have caused full many to betray their friends - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In your cause exert my utmost vigour - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The cause of such behaviour is only custom - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Venus caused an intermingled stream of blood and tears - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Caused him to break the peace of kings - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gold, the cursed cause of all - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Abundant causes for misgiving and dismay - C. L. Graves "The Flapper"
Effect ordains Cause, head swallowing its tail - Robert Graves "The Dialecticians"
A clamor for their lost cause - Conrad Hilberry "Exits"
That cause the eye to quail - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
Causing a chain reaction of giant black holes - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Gallant toilers in a desperate cause - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"
Stout soldiers in a losing cause - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Would pause for an honorable cause - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"
With rational surveillance as its cause - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
On behalf of a thousand justifiable causes - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
A stainless cause and a dauntless fight - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
The spark to advance our cause - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Was this a cause for night to fetter me? - Kostes Palamas "The Holy Virgin in Hell" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Easy to blame the world's ills on a single cause - Josh Pearce "Plastic Paradise Awaits" [Strange Horizons 2 Feb. 2025]
The proximate cause of our present afflictions - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]
In the name and cause of law - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Fist"
Cause of my Woes, and Object of my hate - "The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony" [1709]
Chaos in the cause of paradise - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"
Causing the five peaks to tremble - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound
Which pressure causes metamorphoses, protostar pre-nucleosynthesis - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Its most mapless lost cause - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
This black-looking root is the cause - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Was ambitious to find out the cause of his bliss - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Enough lost causes to die for - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"
With all its angry and vehement play of causes - Walt Whitman "To Thee Old Causes"
Causing the sun to shine in his sphere - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Bad Disciple of a lost cause - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
If he knew what caused the winds to blow - Dennison Woodcock "A Life's Story: From One to Ninety-One"
Everything a field of energy caused by human projection - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"
The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
The invisible hides cause-and-effect - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
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