Tag: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias by Shelley

April is National Poetry Month, so today I write about Ozymandias, a sonnet by Shelley, first published in 1818. Shelley wrote this poem after a statue of Ramesses II was found in Egypt.  Ozymandias  I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…