Battle of The Somme/battle of Bazentin Ridge 14-22 July

Famous quotes containing the words battle, somme, ridge and/or july:

    The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.
    Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)

    Somme seyde, wommen loven best richesse,
    Somme seyde, honour, somme seyde, jolynesse;
    Somme, riche array, somme seyden, lust abedde,
    And ofte tyme to be widwe and wedde.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    The light passes
    from ridge to ridge,
    from flower to flower.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    April is in my mistress’ face,
    And July in her eyes hath place,
    Within her bosom is September,
    But in her heart a cold December.
    —Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .

    Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)