March 2012
25 posts
MY ANCIENT WORLD.: Graffiti in Pompeii →
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A collection of some I found the best.
‘Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!’ - Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio
‘Restitutus says: “Restituta, take off your tunic, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy…
“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said — “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart … . 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.” —Percy Bysse Shelly
Who said — “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart … . 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.” —Percy Bysse Shelly
