3 Quotes by Lionel Johnson

Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled,And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.

Mine is the sultry sunset when the skiesTremble with strange, intolerable thunder:And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyesDraw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder