" FTP name this poem describing the wreck of an Egyptian statue, written by Percy Shelley.
This poem was written under the pen-name Glirastes a few weeks before Horace Smith wrote that "some Hunter may express / wonder like ours" in another poem on the same subject, inspired by a passage in Diodorus Siculus. This poem mentions "lifeless things" whose record of passions survives "the heart that fed," as well as "The hand that mocked them." Smith's version focuses on "a gigantic Leg," while this poem mentions a "wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command," and "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone." FTP name this poem describing the wreck of an Egyptian statue, written by Percy Shelley.
This poem was written under the pen-name Glirastes a few weeks before Horace Smith wrote that "some Hunter may express / wonder like ours" in another poem on the same subject, inspired by a passage in Diodorus Siculus.
“{Ozymandias}”