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Ten Famous PoemsChapter 3 of 10
Ten Famous Poems 10 chapters · about 13 min
  1. 1 If— (Rudyard Kipling) 2 min · 🎧
  2. 2 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (William Wordsworth) 1 min · 🎧
  3. 3 Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Reading 1 min · 🎧
  4. 4 Invictus (William Ernest Henley) 1 min · 🎧
  5. 5 The Tyger (William Blake) 1 min · 🎧
  6. 6 Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe) 2 min · 🎧
  7. 7 Crossing the Bar (Alfred Tennyson) 1 min · 🎧
  8. 8 The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Tennyson) 2 min · 🎧
  9. 9 How Do I Love Thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 1 min · 🎧
  10. 10 She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) 1 min · 🎧

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Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

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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 mock’d 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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