Grammar school!

[smulder]

@HatOfEdshu

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:

… I was always confused by that last line

but the key seems to be seeing the word “survive” as a transitive verb

Can someone explain this line in Shelley’s Ozymandias?