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... Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats - Page 74by John Keats - 1848 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...1821. SONNETS. OZYMANDIAS. [ MET a traveller from an antique land. Who said : Two vast and trunklcss with us, from Felunsee. VOICES BELOW. With what joy would we f rank, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...himself, and lore all buman kind. SONNET.-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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...flowers ! January Iff, 1821. SONNETS. OZYMANDIA8. 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... | |
| William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...encroaching sand. These are his verses : — " I saw 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... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...These tombe alone remain. SONNET.— 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... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 pages
...calm journey on for human sake. LH OZYMANDIAS. I saw 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... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...These tombs alone remain. SONNET.— OZYMANDIAS. I MET a traveller from an antique land Who saivl : 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, Ti-Il that its sculptor... | |
| Adam White - 1851 - 20 pages
...to allow of so mature and finished a production : I saw 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... | |
| 1854 - 542 pages
...our visit to Geezeh. CHAPTER XXIII. UPPER EGYPT. ' 1 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... | |
| Theodore Alois Buckley - Seven Wonders of the World - 1854 - 332 pages
...every other people of the world. I met a traveler from an antique land Who said, "Two vast and uunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, A shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor... | |
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