 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 - 1834 - 888 pages
...Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did hind To fear himself, and lore all buman kind. SONNET.-OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and hare The lone and level sands stretch far away. VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE NOBLE AND UNFORTUNATE LADY... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart thatfed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : " My name...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... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...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...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PBS HAMPSTEAD, February 21, [1818 ] MY DEAR BROTHERS, I am extremely... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : — " My name is Ozymandias, King of Kiugs : Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair ! " Nothing beside...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PBS HAHPSTEAD, February 21, [1818.] MY DEAB BROTHERS, I am extremely... | |
 | Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : "My name is Oxymandius, King of Kings ; . Look on my works ye mighty, and despair !" Nothing beside...decay Of that colossal wreck boundless and bare The loose and level sands stretch far away.' " — SHELLEY. In the remains of the large edifice called... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless thing.-., The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ;...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... | |
 | John Collett (poet.) - 1860 - 230 pages
...heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: ' My name is Osymandyas, king of kings, Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." SHELLEY. Invites the wanderer to its forest shade, And cool repose,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : ' My name is Ozymandias, king of king^: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !' Nothing beside...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PB Shelley CCXLVII COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, THE PROPERTY OF LORD... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...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...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. PB Shelley COMPOSED A TNEIDPA TH CASTLE, THE PROPERTY OF LORD QUEENSBERRY,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...fed with love, like air and dew, Its growth SONNET.— OZYJIANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antiqne land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away. LINES TO A CRITIC. HONET from silkworms who can gather, Or silk from... | |
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