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This work, which was written for a competition with Horace Smith, ends by describing the "lone and level sands" that "stretch far away." A visage in this poem conveys the frown, wrinkled lip, and "sneer of cold command" of the title figure, who is also described as "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." This poem relates the story of a traveler met in an "antique land" who tells of "two vast and trunkless legs of stone" in the desert. A pedestal described in this poem reads "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" For 10 points, name this sonnet about a titular "king of kings," written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This work, which was written for a competition with Horace Smith, ends by describing the "lone and level sands" that "stretch far away.
{"Ozymandias"}