Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped... Poetical Works - Page 445by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 616 pagesFull view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 770 pages
...hoary ; This most familiar scene, my pain — These tombs alone remain. S ONNET.— OZ YM ANDI AS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said, Two...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. ON FG HER voice did quiver as we parted, Yet knew I not that heart... | |
| David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : 1 My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on my...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. CCLXXIII TO THE WEST WIND. X OWILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 378 pages
...heart, and mind, and thoughts ! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below ? OZYMANDIAS. MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two...The lone and level sands stretch far away. TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL MARTIN, MY VENERABLE ORANDFATHER-1N-LAW, WHO WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM US IN THE NINETIETH... | |
| Samuel Waddington - 1882 - 280 pages
...flowest. Beware, O Man — for knowledge must to thee Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be. OZYMANDIAS. MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. POLITICAL GREATNESS. jlOR happiness, nor majesty,... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. SHELLEY. _ ar-ter-ies de-sper-ate dis-loc-ate pro-ject-iles dex-ter-ous... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - 1882 - 384 pages
...things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: 1 My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works,...the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare TO THE MEMORY OK SAMUEL MARTIN, MY VENERABLE GRANDFATHER-JN-LAW, WHO WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM US IN THE... | |
| Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 180 pages
...drowned; Of lovely Laura in her light green dress, And faithful Petrarch gloriously crowned. KEATS. OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." SHELLEY. Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned, Mindless... | |
| Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 182 pages
...lovely Laura in her light green dress, And faithful Petrarch gloriously crowned. OZYMANDIAS KEATS. I met a traveller from an antique land Who said :...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." SHELLEY. Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned, Mindless... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1884 - 304 pages
...land 1 Who said : " Two vast and trunkless legs of stuno Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, | Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which...sands stretch far away." TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR. 1. rT"'HY country's curse is on thee, darkest crest 1 Of that foul, knotted, many-headed worm Which rends... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 470 pages
...where'er thou flowest. Beware, O Man ! for knowledge must to thee Like the great flood to Egypt ever be. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique...level sands stretch far away." TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR. I. THY country's curse is on thee, darkest crest Of that foul, knotted, many-headed worm Which rends... | |
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