Read full poem →I know the swing of sinful hack,
Where many damsels cry alack.
With a fa, la, la.
Dictionary Entry
An expression of sorrow or mourning.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “alack”
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Read full poem →Not a child? alack the year!
What should ail an undefiled
Read full poem →Why, what else should I do? Stay here and look at the pictures,
Statues and churches? Alack, I am sick of the statues and pictures!--
No, to Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Lodi, and Milan,
Read full poem →Hide us, O bushes! and ye thick trees, hide!
He comes, on, on. Alack, and all these leaves,
These petty, quivering and illusive blinds,
Read full poem →These cannot see the robes of white
In which I sing of love. Alack,
But darkness shows in heavenly light,
Read full poem →"An it please you, gentle sirs,"
"Alack!" and "Well-a-day!"
Read full poem →Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone,
Read full poem →Alack! and alack! thou art overbold,
A Forester’s son may not eat off gold.
Read full poem →Alack! and alack! thou art overbold,
A Forester's son may not eat off gold.
Read full poem →Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun
To give it my loving friends to keep!