Quotes from work
The Masque of Anarchy
The Masque of Anarchy is a British political poem written in 1819 by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year. In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance.
“I met Murder on the way —
He had a mask like Castlereagh”
Very smooth he looked, yet grim;
Seven blood-hounds followed him.
St. 2
The Masque of Anarchy (1819)
ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well —
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.
St. 39
The Masque of Anarchy (1819)
