Famous quotes containing the words lionel pigot johnson, pigot johnson, lionel pigot, lionel, pigot and/or johnson:
“The saddest of all kings
Crowned, and again discrowned.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)
“Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
To rid the world of penitence:
Malicious Angel, who still dost
My soul such subtile violence!
Because of thee, no thought, no thing,
Abides for me undesecrate:
Dark Angel, ever on the wing,
Who never reachest me too late!”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)
“Alone he rides, alone,
The fair and fatal king:
Dark night is all his own,
That strange and solemn thing.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)
“frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)
“Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)