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,
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,
MY faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy looks, my love; It panted for thee like the hind at noon For the brooks, my love
Thy barb, whose hoofs outspeed the tempest's flight, Bore thee far from me; My heart, for my weak feet were weary...
I
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats through unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,--Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits w...
I rode one evening with Count
Upon the bank of land which breaks the
Of Adria towards Venice: a bare
Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand,
I
From the forests and highlands We come, we come;
From the river-girt islands,
Where loud waves are dumb Listening to my sweet pipings
ES
ED TO
HE
LE
I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how
I
How stern are the woes of the desolate
As he bends in still grief o'er the hallowed bier,
As enanguished he turns from the laugh of the scorner,
I
The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow The breath of night like death did flow Beneath the sinking moon
II
The wintry hedge was black; The ...
I
Good-night
ah
no; the hour is
Chameleons feed on light and air:
Poets' food is love and fame:
If in this wide world of care Poets could but find the same With as little toil as they,
Would they ever change their hue As the light chameleons do,
IS
King Charles I
Queen Henrietta
Laud,