Can you identify the poem beginning I heard thy death with scarce a sigh?

The poem you are looking for is "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Here are the opening lines:

> I met a traveler 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.

The line "I heard thy death with scarce a sigh" actually comes later in the poem, specifically the second stanza:

> I heard thy death with scarce a sigh,

> I know thy fate is mine.

Let me know if you have any other questions about the poem.

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