“Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!”
Lord Byron
“But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, we are / The intelligences, they the sphere.”
John Donne
“You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The dandelion's pallid tube/ Astonishes the grass,/ And winter instantly becomes/ An infinite alas.”
Emily Dickinson
“Alas, love is too regional.”
Alamgir Hashmi
“Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?”
William Allingham
“Alas, I am dying beyond my means.”
Oscar Wilde
