Years Long

Famous quotes containing the words years and/or long:

    “Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might
    Of heaven-born freedom on thy being’s height,
    Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
    The years to bring the inevitable yoke,”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still,
    Wherewith, alas! I have been long possessed,”
    —Michael Drayton (1563–1631)