...But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! (b) Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast...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...

...the sonnet. See p. 227 for notes on poet's life. Percy Bysshe Shelley OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless...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...

...of history: a denial that ends in a defacement like that recorded in Shelley's "Ozymandias": . . . 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...

...echo in their confrontation of the question of the hubris of history and the passage of time. I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast...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...

...mistranslation by an ancient scholar) to Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous poem, "Ozymandias of Egypt": I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast...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...

...ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aksum: an introduction ROGER D. WOODARD Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless...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...