• "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?", ,
Paul the Apostle • "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times.",
William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 1 • "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die.",
Romeo and Juliet, act 5, scene 3, • "To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Leadst thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?",
John Keats,
Ode on a Grecian Urn • "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!",
Walter Raleigh,
A Historie of the World • "Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!",
Thomas Quincey,
Confessions of an English • "Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean – roll!",
Lord Byron,
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage • "Thou glorious sun!",
Samuel Coleridge,
This Bower • "
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.",
John Donne,
Holy Sonnet X • "And you, Eumaeus ...",
Homer, the
Odyssey, 14.55, κτλ ... • "O My friends, there is no friend."
Montaigne, originally attributed to
Aristotle • "O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!",
Electra in
Euripides's,
Electra, (, line 54), in the translation by
David Kovacs (1998.) • "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief.", queen
Isabel in
Edward II; by
Christopher Marlowe. ==See also==