Read full poem →The throat across from ear to ear
'Twill bleed because of it."
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On account of; due to, for the purpose of
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Poetry examples for “because of”
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Read full poem →We wish it to be clearly understood that we do not represent an exclusive
artistic sect; we publish our work together because of mutual artistic
sympathy, and we propose to bring out our coöperative volume each year for
Read full poem →To freely ask and give, a man complete
Radiant because of faith, we dare to be
What Nature meant us. Brave idolatry
Read full poem →who went there said they were sure the whites did not
enter not because of prejudice, but because the black boys
lounging all over the café were dirty, ragged, and smelly.
Read full poem →To man's or to the Church's charity.
Because of the great famine, rather than
To watch her growing thin between their knees.
Read full poem →and gladly acknowledged, but surely the time
has come when, because of the calculated criti-
cism and the premeditated calumnies of the op-
Read full poem →confess that the idea was suggested to me by the Greek Anthology. But
it was rather because of the Greek Anthology than from it that I
evolved the less harmonious epitaphs with which Spoon River Anthology
Read full poem →We conquered slavery of the negro through,
Because of economic forces, yet
We conquered it. Trade, cotton, were the mud
Read full poem →Or the black pane goes white.
Because of which I cannot see
A flock upon a hill,
Read full poem →And would the sun for thee more coldly shine
Because of grave-damps falling round my head?
I marvelled, my Beloved, when I read