A stanza in this poem compares "horsemen's scimitars" to "sphereless stars / thirsting to eclipse their burning." One figure in this poem is "arrayed in mail/brighter than the viper's scale" and appears after a "maniac maid" named Hope lays in the street "right before the ho
A stanza in this poem compares "horsemen's scimitars" to "sphereless stars / thirsting to eclipse their burning." One figure in this poem is "arrayed in mail/brighter than the viper's scale" and appears after a "maniac maid" named Hope lays in the street "right before the horses' feet." This poem's title personification has a mark on his brow stating "I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!" and is a deathly pale figure riding a white horse. A refrain in this poem commands "Rise like Lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number" and notes that "Ye are many - they are few." In this poem, the personified Hypocrisy, Fraud, and Murder represent Sidmouth, Eldon, and Lord Castlereagh. For 10 points, name this allegorical response to shootings by police at Peterloo, a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.