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# Ozy Meets Harriet
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/ozy-meets-harriet/
- Published: 2022-08-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I met a traveler from a modern land, and she's like: "don't you give me any lip! Lie here -- stay partly covered by the sand. This picture will remind me of my trip." Her stylish shades obscure her upper face but I we...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I met a traveler from a modern land,  
and she's like: "don't you give me any lip!  
Lie here -- stay partly covered by the sand.  
This picture will remind me of my trip."  
Her stylish shades obscure her upper face  
but I well know the strength behind that tone.  
It's known to pharaohs throughout time and space,  
and so I pose with her, a silent stone.

Thus captured, she will send me through the air:  
"His name was Ozymandias, King of Kings"  
and others will reply: "wish I was there!"  
and add "oh, L.O.L, what ARE those things?"  
And I'll stay here, refusing to decay.  
The sand dunes that preserve stretch far away.

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**Author notes:** https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias