Reading by Catherine Payling
Filmed in The Salone
of The Keats-Shelley House
Rome, Italy
Video by Nancy Watkins
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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 mocked 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.
Poem included in the book Amore
e fama
| Collana Grandi Tarsie
John Keats Percy B. Shelley
Amore e fama
Translation by Gianfranco Palmery
With five drawings by Nancy Watkins
2006, Pages 96, Euro 10,00
ISBN
978-88-89299-36-4
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