Wars of the Roses Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, associated with a red rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a white rose. Eventually, the wars eliminated the male lines of both families. The conflict lasted through many sporadic episodes between 1455 and 1487, but there was related fighting before and after this period between the parties. The power struggle ignited around social and financial troubles following
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time natural world. The poem continues however, returning to echo the original sentiment, his yearning for lost culture- "But seek alone to hear the strange things said/By God to the bright hearts of those long dead/And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know/Come near". To the Rose upon the Rood of Time "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" is poem by W. B. Yeats that was published in "The Rose" in 1893. The poem is one of many early Yeatsian lyrical poems which utilize the symbol of the rose. The poem has twenty four lines, written in