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Chellee

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17. Ozymandias by Shelley
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 09:23 PM
Mar 2015

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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I like that one too. I never knew the name of it. femmocrat Feb 2015 #1
Harlem by Langston Hughes NewJeffCT Feb 2015 #2
Walt Whitman: "When I heard at the close of the day' Rowdyboy Feb 2015 #3
Victor Hugo - Apres La Bataille (After The Battle) aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #4
Ah, I like that malthaussen Feb 2015 #8
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost elleng Feb 2015 #5
Yes. That is a classic. applegrove Feb 2015 #6
Well, my favorite poems are my own compositions... malthaussen Feb 2015 #7
You beat me to it! The Second Coming is probably my favorite The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #16
dedicated to Rowdyboy Skittles Mar 2015 #9
. countryjake Mar 2015 #10
Thank you. femmocrat Mar 2015 #15
Continent's End, by Robinson Jeffers petronius Mar 2015 #11
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley) HeiressofBickworth Mar 2015 #12
My House by Lou Reed lovemydog Mar 2015 #13
anyone lived in a pretty how town (e e cummings) struggle4progress Mar 2015 #14
Ozymandias by Shelley Chellee Mar 2015 #17
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