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.

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" That was Shelley, writing in 1818 with a poetic vision inspired by the monumental figure here in the British ...