Percy Bysshe Shelley: Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy

Published by H. Buxton Forman, "The Mask of Anarchy" ("Facsimile of Shelley's manuscript"), 1887.

(for which stanzas 68, 69 have been substituted.)

From the cities where from caves,
Like the dead from putrid graves,
Troops of starvelings gliding come,
Living Tenants of a tomb.
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