What does "Ye Mighty and Despair" means?

-In the Poem Ozymandias

the speaker says:



"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"



What is refeered to as MIGHTY?

Does ozymandias tells the reader "See what I have done...and then start to despair"

?"ye Mighty" means those who are powerful, like kings.

Ozy was boasting about the great works he had built and telling the kings who came after him to "despair" because they would be unable to create half of what he had created.

The speaker is reading the words on a pedestal.

The irony is that the speaker sees only ruins.



OZYMANDIAS



I met a traveller 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



Percy Bysshe Shelley