Ozymandius
- Created by: That Vet Student
- Created on: 24-11-19 16:55
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was a 'Romantic' poet, who only became famous after death. He wrote 'Ozymandius' in 1817, after hearing how an Italian explorer had removed the statue from the desert.
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 shatter'd visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
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