Ozymandias
Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias Quotes

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Transience Quotes

I met a traveler from an antique land (1)

Pride Quotes

...whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command (4-5)

Art and Culture Quotes

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, half-sunk A shatter'd visage lies (2-4)

Man and the Natural World Quotes

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies (2-4)