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,... Twelve years' Queen's scholarship questions - Page 254by Education Ministry of - 1882Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...— but, O ye hours. Follow with May's fairest flowers '. January la, 1821. SONNETS. OZYMANDIAS. [ re a man but a single spring will make. VOICES ABOVE. Come wi trunklcss legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half rank, a shatter'd visage... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did hind To fear himself, and lore all buman kind. SONNET.-OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...weeps — but, O ye hours. Follow with May's fairest flowers ! January Iff, 1821. SONNETS. OZYMANDIA8. I MET a traveller from an antique land. Who said :...stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand. Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command. Tell... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...my pain — These tombs alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique hmd 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... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...seene, my pain — These tombs alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antiqHe 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 eold eommand, Tell... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...appeal, when the statue itself shall be hidden under encroaching sand. These are his verses : — " I saw a traveller from an antique land Who said, — 'Two...stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell... | |
| 412 pages
...and truukless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them in the sand, Half-sunk, a shattered image lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on those lifeless things. The hand... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...hair is hoary ; This most familiar scene, my pain — These tombe alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said :...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... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake. LH OZYMANDIAS. I saw a traveller from an antique land, Who said :— Two...stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell... | |
| John Keats - Poets, English - 1848 - 420 pages
...and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake. OZYMANDIAS. LH I saw a traveler from an antique land, Who said :—Two vast and trunkless...stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter' d visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell... | |
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