Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson

Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

1. I met a traveller from an antique land
 2. Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
 3. Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
 4. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
 5. And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
 6. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
 7. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
 8. The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
 9. And on the pedestal these words appear:
 10. "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 11. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
 12. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 13. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 14. The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Click on a line to see some annotations. 1. Wouldn't it be a cool twist if Ozymandias was actually the traveller? 2. I'd rather be remembered for something other than my legs...but I guess there are some people out there that would be ok with that. 3. Has anyone else noticed the spelling of desert in this? 4. "A shattered visage" - I love that phrase. 5. Sic semper tyrannis! 6. "Sculptor" - The Egyptians were amazing sculptors. Their work was incredible. 7. "Lifeless things" - The sight of these ruins is reminiscent of the sights I saw in Turkey last summer. 8. I can never tell if this line is referring to the sculptor or the king himself. 9. In the modern age, that pedestal would be long since be the victim of graffiti. 10. Lioresal Novartis Organic Viagra Acquisto Viagra Forum buy generic cialis Cipro 500mg Best Prices Levitra Ersatz Provera 10mg Online No Prescription 11. Any works that are designed to make others despair are obviously abominations that never should have been dreamed up. 12. As rotten as the one it was based on I imagine. 13. So just how big do you presume this statue was? 14. And the only sound is the whisper of the wind...