No matter how faithful a reproduction the statue can provide, the traveler never recalls any detail about the king himself. These words are full of passion, but unlike in Wordsworth's poem, produce no meaningful reaction in the narrator or the rememberer. This play on words produces several compatible meanings. First, the traveler could mean that there is nothing beside the statue which remains of the king's work. Second, this statement could also mean that there is nothing of the kingdom standing around the remains of the statue.
Nothing beside remains.
The lone and level sands stretch far away. Although king Ozymandias' passion might have created a great empire, there is no reality of it left. Works Consulted Abrams, M.H, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature . Have I Known.