Arms on armour clashing bray'd

Horrible discord, and the madding wheels

Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise

Of conflict.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 209.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law

In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Character of the Happy Warrior.

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven

This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;

The rueful conflict, the heart riven

With vain endeavour,

And memory of Earth's bitter leaven

Effaced forever.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Thoughts suggested on the Banks of the Nith.