72 OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, "Nay.. nay.. my little girl," quoth he, "And everybody praised the Duke - "Why that I cannot tell," said he, Robert Southey. OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT. I MET a traveller from an antique land "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: P. B. Shelley. THE NILE. 73 THE NILE. IT flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands. And the void weighs on us; and then we wake, Leigh Hunt. FANTASTIC sleep is busy with my eyes: Sultry and still-a realm of mysteries; A wide-browed Sphinx, half buried in the sand, With orbless sockets stares across the land, The wofullest thing beneath these brooding skies Where all is woful weird-lit vacancy. 'Tis neither midnight, twilight, nor moonrise. The nebulous clouds are downward slowly drawn, ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED. 75 ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED. WHILE poring Antiquarians search the ground Dawns this time-buried pavement. From that mound Or a fierce impress issue with its foil Of tenderness-the Wolf, whose suckling Twins W. Wordsworth. 76 ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER. MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold Oft of one wide expanse had I been told -Then felt I like some watcher of the skies He stared at the Pacific, and all his men John Keats. |