Hundred Years War/second Peace - 1389%e2%80%931415

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
    Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)

    Plead, Sleep, my cause, and make her soft like thee,
    That she in peace may wake and pity me.
    Thomas Campion (1567–1620)