There are a couple more poems I know and love on a similar theme, but they're probably not of interest to this audience as they're in Sanskrit :-) (“सा रम्या नग

There are a couple more poems I know and love on a similar theme, but they're probably not of interest to this audience as they're in Sanskrit :-) (“सा रम्या नगरी…” by Bhartṛhari, “ मान्धाता स महीपतिः…” by Bhoja, and “…शान्त्यै मनो दीयताम्” by Kṣemendra) Not another poem on that theme, but something cool I remembered related to Ozymandias: Gilbert Adair, somewhere in his amazing translation (A Void) of Georges Perec's work La Disparition — written entirely without a single instance of the letter 'e' — has this rewrite of Ozymandias that maintains the lipogram constraint (and rhyme): Ozymandias I know a pilgrim from a distant land Who said: Two vast and sawn-off limbs of quartz Stand on an arid plain. Not far, in sand Half sunk, I found a facial stump, drawn warts And all; its curling lips of cold command Show that its sculptor passions could portray Which still outlast, stamp’d on unliving things, A mocking hand that no constraint would sway: And on its plinth this lordly boast is shown: “Lo, I am Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, O Mighty, and bow down!” ‘Tis all that is intact. Around that crust Of a colossal ruin, now windblown, A sandstorm swirls and grinds it into dust. — PBS He does similar things in some places in the book with other works, such as Poe's The Raven: http://whatwouldpuskasdo.blogspot.com/2004/07/dropping-e.html http://whatwouldpuskasdo.blogspot.com/2004/07/dropping-e.htm... And on the original theme, see also https://abstrusegoose.com/89 https://abstrusegoose.com/89