“Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an apostle but they mock at him.”
quran
“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
“What private griefs they have, alas, I know not”
William Shakespeare
“Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be”
“Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.”
Horace
“Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!”
Lord Byron
“Alas! in winter, dead and dark,Where can poor Robin go?”
William Allingham
