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 Stoddard Library: Shakespeare-Taine - Page 133by John Lawson Stoddard - 1910Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...vast and trunklcss legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half rank, a shatter'd r sky We are wash'd, we are 'nointed, stark naked...and our pain* are for ever in vain. BOTH CHORUSSES. stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...thy spells did hind To fear himself, and lore all buman kind. SONNET.-OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless...sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...hours. Follow with May's fairest flowers ! January Iff, 1821. SONNETS. OZYMANDIA8. I MET a traveller from an antique land. Who said : Two vast and trunkless...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... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...my pain — These tombs alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique hmd Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand...sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...most familiar scene, my pain — These tombs alone remain. SONNET.— OZ YM ANDI AS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless...shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and »neer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...seene, my pain — These tombs alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antiqHe land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone...lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of eold eommand, Tell that its seulptor well those passions read Whieh yet survive, stamped on these lifeless... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...statue itself shall be hidden under encroaching sand. These are his verses : — " I saw a traveller from an antique land Who said, — 'Two vast and trunkless...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... | |
| 412 pages
...and truukless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them in the sand, Half-sunk, a shattered image lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of...sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on those lifeless things. The hand that worked them, and the heart that led; And on the pedestal... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...most familiar scene, my pain — These tombe alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless...sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal... | |
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