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Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818
Original text in English.
Two legs of stone standing in the sand, and at their feet a shattered face.
Poetry · 114 words · about 1 min of reading
About this text
Percy Bysshe Shelley († 1822): public-domain work. The text is that of Representative Poetry Online (Bodleian Library MS Shelley e.4, fol. 85r. Facsimile edited by Paul Dawson, The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, gen. ed. D. H. Reiman (1988). Additional readings from Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems (London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819). D-10/3264 Fisher Rare Book Library). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
Note on the edition (in French): Poème seul : les notes, numéros de vers et fiches des éditeurs de Representative Poetry Online, protégés, ne sont pas repris.
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