Shelley on Ozymandias and the sands

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.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley †

Ozymandias (lines 10-14), published 1818 in The Examiner · c. 1818 · Poetry

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