Dejo el enlace a la wikipedia sobre este poema porque merece la pena. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
Ozymandias. Percy Shelley
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.
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.
Ozymandias. Percy Shelley
Conocí a un viajero de un viejo territorio
que me dijo: hay en el desierto, sin tronco, dos grandes
piernas de piedra. Cerca, medio hundido
en la arena, yace un rostro destrozado
cuya frente, cuyos labios fruncidos, cuyo frío
gesto de dominio y desprecio proclaman
que su escultor conoció muy bien las pasiones
que, selladas en esas cosas sin vida, aún sobreviven
a la mano que les dio forma y al corazón que fue su alimento.
Y en el pedestal se encuentran estas palabras:
"Me llamo Ozymandias, rey de reyes.
Contempla mis obras, tú, poderoso, y desespera".
Nada permanece. Alrededor del deterioro
de esta inmensa ruina, ilimatada y desnuda
se extiende lejana la arena solitaria.
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