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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

6428 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:6428
AUTHOR:Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
QUOTATION:      Alone!—that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
ATTRIBUTION:The New Timon. (1846). Part ii.