“Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!”
Hilaire Belloc
“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
“Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?”
William Allingham
“Alas, love is too regional.”
Alamgir Hashmi
“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
“Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.”
Horace
“Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be”
William Shakespeare
