“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
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In response to critics and ballet fans who say Tidwell "sold-out" by auditioning on So You Think You Can Dance
La Rocco Claudia. "TV Viewers Discover Dance, and the Debate Is Joined" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/arts/dance/21revo.html?ref=dance#, The New York Times, September 21, 2007
Poem Sweet Content http://www.bartleby.com/101/204.html
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!”
Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 37
“O death, why art thou so long in coming?”
Attributed last words
Source: Frederic Rowland (1900). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women. Troy, New York: C. A. Brewster & Co.
The Greatness of God.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”
The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”
The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p
“O life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!”
Despondency.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“O Time! whose verdicts mock our own,
The only righteous judge art thou!”