The Masque of Anarchy: A PoemE. Moxon, 1832 - 47 páginas |
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66 LXXXVII advocated and anticipated aristocrat Art thou author no Christian base company become Like Oppression's charged artillery drive churches militant read clash of clanging Danger in wars dare to greet dead air seems disregarded shade emotion and dignity England-they Whose reverend ensuing are printed F LXXVIII folded arms free Ashamed friends of Reform Gleam with sharp greet Their acquaintance heart and brain horsemen's scimitars Wheel hugged Danger land Will point laws of England-they Let churches militant LXXXIX MASQUE OF ANARCHY nation Shall steam night's loose hair Oppression's thundered doom outspeeds The career PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY phalanx undismay'd Poem prostrate multitude Looked recommendation of non-resistance sea of death Shelley's sive obedience sleep had fall'n sphereless stars stanza eighty-five stanzas next ensuing stars from night's supposed reckless innovator swords Thine own echo-Liberty Thou art thought true warriors unvanquishable NUMBER violate Such sacred volcano heard afar wet Its bright wings whose grain
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Página 2 - I met Murder on the way — He had a mask like Castlereagh — Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him: All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew Which from his wide cloak he drew.
Página 22 - So that ye for them are made Loom, and plough, and sword, and spade, With or without your own will bent To their defence and nourishment.
Página 5 - And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw — 'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!
Página 21 - Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants
Página 19 - Men of England, heirs 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.
Página xiii - ... our knees to the fire, to which we had been getting nearer and nearer, in the comfort of finding ourselves together. The pleasure of seeing him was my only feeling at the moment; and the air of domesticity about us was so complete, that I thought he was going to speak of some family matter, either his or my own, when he asked me, at the close of an intensity of pause, what was ' the amount of the National Debt...
Página 27 - Thou art clothes, and fire, and food For the trampled multitude No - in countries that are free Such starvation cannot be As in England now we see.
Página xii - We were sitting in a cottage study, with our knees to the fire, to which we had been getting nearer and nearer in the comfort of finding ourselves together ; the pleasure of seeing him was my only feeling at the moment ; and the air of domesticity about us was so complete that I thought he was going to speak of some family matter — either his or my own ; when he asked me, at the close of an intensity of pause, what was "the amount of the National Debt.
Página xxviii - With respect to Universal Suffrage, I confess I consider its adoption, in the present unprepared state of public knowledge and feeling, a measure fraught with peril. I think that none but those who register their names as paying a certain small sum in direct taxes ought at present to send Members to Parliament.
Página 32 - Or turn their wealth to arms, and make War for thy beloved sake On wealth, and war, and fraud - whence they Drew the power which is their prey. Science, Poetry, and Thought Are thy lamps; they make the lot Of the dwellers in a cot So serene, they curse it not.