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Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1818
Pages
Pages 1

A traveller describes two vast stone legs in the desert and a shattered face beside them, whose pedestal still commands despair at works the sand has long since swallowed.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley

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