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Outside 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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