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,... A Book of English Sonnets - Page 481906 - 167 pagesFull view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 628 pages
...isles with incense-blossoms bright Lingering, suspends my soul in its voluptuous flight. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land...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... | |
| William Moore - 1870 - 104 pages
...f¿ávrsts, TÜV TS Trplv fíoрфа1 xи\а1 Tijí yfjs e^ovffi ró>Ss тráуKoч>ov Tafyuv. XXVI. I MET a traveller from an antique land, Who said :...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 - 1871 - 742 pages
...Its withered leaves in a faithless bosom ! And fed with love, like air and dew, Its growth SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land...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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...longing, shall aught, aught discover : You leave the story to me. JEAN INCELOW. OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT. 71 shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...produced by Shelley, which fills the imagination as only the work of a great master can : 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... | |
| John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone. PERCY UYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792 — 1822. OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land...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... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...o'er my dying brain its last monotony. Shelley.— Born 1792, Died 1822. 1370.— OZYMANDIAS OP EGYPT. 3. trunklcss legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand Half sunk, a shatter' J visage lies,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...taste of thee; For thou dost shroud a ruin, and below The rotting bones of dead antiquity. Stontuta. OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...to write the noble lines which are amongst the few great gifts which modem poetry has made to Egypt. 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 - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. 1 MOT a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunklcss 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... | |
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