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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Romantic poet, died at 29. Hated kings. Ozymandias is his joke on all of them.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

The quotes

4 quotes by or about Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the order they happen.

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of humans · power of nature

The king's boast on his statue. Look at what I built and be afraid. Around it there is nothing.

Nothing beside remains

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of humans · power of nature · loss

The statue is broken. The empire is gone. The sand is what lasts.

The lone and level sands stretch far away

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of nature

Flat empty desert in every direction. Nature outlasts every king.

sneer of cold command

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of humans

The face on the statue is cruel and proud. The sculptor caught it. The king did not notice.

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