The phrase "after slumber" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the time following sleep or a period of rest.
Example: "She felt refreshed and ready to face the day after slumber."
Alternatives: "after sleep" or "upon waking".
Forget "Rise, like lions after slumber".
"Rise, like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number!
Similar ideas pepper the work of Michael Wilkinson, in Lions After Slumber at the Modern Institute in Glasgow.
I wanted to be the angry working-class hero John Lennon sang about, or the romantic lion rising after slumber that Shelley wrote about.
But the sheer incongruousness of the language ("Rise, like lions after slumber / in unvanquishable number") is a plain attempt to dignify your own political proposition with a glory conceived for something quite different.
Vallance's laudable ambition was for this chronicle of "the men and women who fought for our freedoms" to inspire us to rise like Shelley's "lions after slumber" and continue the struggle.
After slumbering for almost all 48 minutes in tonight's embarrassing 120-87 loss to the Indiana Pacers, the Lakers are 3-6 this postseason in games in which they could have eliminated an opponent.
The 49ers may have lost explosive wide receiver Mario Manningham to injury earlier in the season, but Michael Crabtree emerged into a star receiver when Kaepernick came into the offense, a 35-year-old Randy Moss has made a number of receptions in the playoffs and tight end Vernon Davis awoke in the playoffs after slumbering through the regular season.
The appointed day has come - the day appointed by destiny - and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent.
His support in the cabinet is falling.In this section A bundle of trouble After the slumber Pro-active Hardball from the Fund Neither buyer nor seller be Pull up the drawbridge The trouble starts at home 'Owzat?
Getting the hint, and having little to lose, Messrs Gerson and Lehrman transformed their company into an information exchange.In this section A bundle of trouble After the slumber Pro-active Hardball from the Fund Neither buyer nor seller be Pull up the drawbridge The trouble starts at home 'Owzat?
