 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 pages
...thy soft feet let me kneel on cushions of Tyrian purple! OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...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... | |
 | Irène Hardy - English language - 1890 - 188 pages
...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...those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on those lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these... | |
 | Charles Henry Crandall - Sonnets, American - 1890 - 524 pages
...And yet one must concede the weird, uncanny strength of the poem : — OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveler from an antique land, Who said : " Two vast and trunkless...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1891 - 168 pages
...love of God had blessed, And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. LEIGH HUNT (Abou ben Adhem). 17 I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 564 pages
...is hoary ; This most familiar scene, my pain, These tombs, — alone remain. SONNET. — OZYMANDIAS I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...of mine Passed into spirit at the touch of hers ! THEODORE WATTS XII. OZYMANDIAS1 I MET a traveler from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless...in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 508 pages
...O Man — for knowledge must to thee Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 5 Tell that its sculptor... | |
 | Catholic universities and colleges - 1903 - 752 pages
...to-morrow. I'll seek no longer now — but leave it there. J. LEO O'GORMAN, '04. A DREAM OF ANNIHILATION. " I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said :...survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear: ' My name is Ozymandias,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...Spirit fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself and love all human-kind. OZYMANDIAS I MET a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless...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... | |
 | Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball - Cairo (Egypt) - 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 :...in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lips and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor... | |
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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,... 
