Alas Quote by Andrew Marvell

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!)…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“You are aware of only one unrest; Oh, never learn to know the other! Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, And one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even…

— Anonymous

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“... WHEN ONE LOOKS INTO THE DARKNESS THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE... Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of…

— William Butler Yeats

There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes…

— Robert E. Howard

“The price I paid for this covering was astronomical—My own blood. You could never purchase such a royal garment, no matter how hard you…

— Sarah Young

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

“I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes-- marvelous these royal robes!…

— Quinesia Johnson

“Monuments of murder, how poor the thoughts, how mean the memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of man on…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands…

— Thomas de Quincey