#121 Ozymandias
August 1st, 2008Here's the entire poem, by Percy Shelley:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
MaryVictor
August 3rd, 2008 10:09pm
i did this poem in english class before. very nice. ^_^
Tristan
August 5th, 2008 11:37am
i like the motif
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August 3rd, 2008 10:09pm
i did this poem in english class before. very nice. ^_^
Tristan
August 5th, 2008 11:37am
i like the motif
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