Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few. Byron - Page 123by John Nichol - 1902 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
| Melvyn Dubofsky - 2000 - 316 pages
...to the Industrial Worker from a Louisiana jail, the organizer EF Doree was moved to poetry: "Arise like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number....Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep have failed on You. / Ye are many, they are few." "We are many," proclaimed Solidarity. "We are resourceful;... | |
| Kenneth O. Morgan - 2000 - 724 pages
...depression, rise decisively against it. He would have echoed Shelley's challenge: Rise like Lions afrer slumber In unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many— they are few. In the 1840s events in Ireland seemed to bring the revolution... | |
| Horst Albert Glaser, György Mihály Vajda - 2000 - 784 pages
...erwachende Löwen als Sinnbilder der Kraft und Morgentau als Symbol des Anfangs — zum Widerstand auf: Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — they are few.24 Die zum politischen Slogan avancierte Schlussformel >Ihr... | |
| Kenneth O. Morgan - 2001 - 804 pages
...the next economic depression, rise decisively against it. He would have echoed Shelley's challenge: Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. In the 1840s events in Ireland seemed to bring the... | |
| Miranda Seymour - 2000 - 722 pages
...of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number,...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many — they are few.'15 Reading these lines makes it hard to understand why... | |
| Ian Balfour - 2002 - 372 pages
...Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again-again-again'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number—...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." 47 The poet seems to act merely as the medium for words... | |
| Notes from Nowhere (Organization) - 2003 - 530 pages
...the famous lines to Manchester's working poor after troops fired on them in the Peterloo massacre: "Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable...chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n on you! Ye are many, and they are few." In reality, the system is more like a huge wedding cake than a... | |
| Stuart Rees - 2003 - 308 pages
...be united in nonviolent protest, they may experience solidarity and undermine the force of armies. "Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...Shake your chains to Earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. . . . "Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close... | |
| Marc Redfield - 2003 - 272 pages
...Like oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number—...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." (360-72) Thus the poem ends, far distant from the sleeper... | |
| Howard Zinn - 2009 - 516 pages
...Shirt," and another . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy." . . . "Rise like lions after slumher In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many, they are few!" The conditions in the factories did not change much.... | |
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