Name: Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias - Great Poems
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Description: “Ozymandias” is a sonnet written in 1817 by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II, derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre.

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“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written in 1817 by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II, derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre.
The poem explores the worldly fate of history and the ravages of time: even the greatest men and the empires they forge are impermanent, their legacies fated to decay into oblivion.
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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.”
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Read by David Barnes
https://librivox.org/ozymandias-of-egypt-by-percy-bysshe-shelley/
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