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 shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor... The Library of Poetry and Song - Page 717edited by - 1925 - 1100 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...other with a wild surmise, — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. OZYMANDIAS.— SHELLBY. I met a traveler from an antique land, Who said : Two vast and trunkless...lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1897 - 258 pages
...(1790-1882) OZYMANDIAS I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half...lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on... | |
| Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball - 1897 - 408 pages
...conquest of the whole known world."1 This colossus forms the subject of one of Shelley's sonnets : " I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said :...a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lips and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 490 pages
...fears, which fade and flee In the light of life's dim morning. November 5, 1817. SONNET. OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...lifeless things,) The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 pages
...fears, which fade and flee In the light of life's dim morning. November 5, 1817. SONNET. OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...lifeless things,) The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 512 pages
...fears, which fade and flee In the light of life's dim morning. November 5, 1817. SONNET. OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...lifeless things,) The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 10 Look... | |
| William King Baker - 1898 - 610 pages
...1,000 tons ! It was of this wrecked statue that Shelley wrote his well known beautiful lines : — I met a traveller from an antique land Who said :...lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear : ' My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on... | |
| Stanley Lane-Poole - 1898 - 358 pages
...bear testimony to his power in every degree of latitude from the Mediterranean to the second cataract. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And...lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : — ' ' My name is Ozj mandias, King of Kings :... | |
| Henry Allen Tupper - 1898 - 480 pages
...the most gigantic figure ever carved out of a single granite rock, the statue of Ramejes the Great. " Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And...lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear : ' My name is Ozymandias, king of kings, Look on... | |
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