Poem: 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[dwgm]

Always loved this one, from the first time I saw it.



~ Ozymandias ~


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,
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:
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.


~.~

Comments

[p0wdermonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah! :) :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Can't help but love that one. :)

[azziria.livejournal.com]

One of my favourites, too :-)

[expastic.livejournal.com]

Oh! I had to write an essay on this one the other day for my AP class. I really loved it. :) :) :)

[the-pyratequeen.livejournal.com]

I, too, have always loved that one. For some reason (I probably read them both for the first time during the same quarter at school) it always makes me think of "The Second Coming"...one of the most goose-flesh-raising poems I have ever read.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

:))

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm glad they're giving you such great poems to write about! That makes it fun. :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

"The Second Coming" is an interesting one, too -- I'd never read that one, before.

[the-pyratequeen.livejournal.com]

I introduced you to a poem! I feel special. :)