Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Africa: Vol. XXIV. 1876–79. | | | | Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia: Nile, the River | | Ozymandias | | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | | 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, | 5 |
| 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 pedestal these words appear: | |
| ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: | 10 |
| 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.” | | | | |
|
|
