Lionel Johnson
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Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 – 4 October 1902) was an English poet, essayist and critic.
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[edit] By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1895)
- Alone he rides, alone,
The fair and fatal king:
Dark night is all his own,
That strange and solemn thing. - Vanquished in life, his death
By beauty made amends:
The passing of his breath
Won his defeated ends.
[edit] The Dark Angel (1895)
- Because of thee, the land of dreams
Becomes a gathering place of fears:
Until tormented slumber seems
One vehemence of useless tears.
