"The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;" (839). In this poem, "Ozymandias" there is a story told by a traveler to another person. The story is of a king who has nothing. It's very ironic through the whole poem because the reader is expecting for the king to have all sorts of riches, but he had nothing. The reason he has nothing is because he was an unkind ruler. Words such as: "sneer" "cold command" and "mocked" show that he didn't have many followers. But because of what was written on the sign, he obviously felt very highly of himself. This was probably his ultimate downfall in the end.