Poetry:Ozymandius
From Tractatus
One of the first poems I remember vividly having read to me, and reading, and re-reading, and reading again. I have no complaint with it whatsoever. I love the pace, the line break between `stone' and `stand.'
It has a notable appearance in Science Fiction in The White Mountains(Christopher)
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--Iain 00:26, 6 Dec 2005 (EST)
Percy Bysshe Shelly
Ozymandius
I met a traveler from an antique land, Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near to them, on the, 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 on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedastal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandius, 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.