Lionel Johnson: Still

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“Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.”

Lionel Johnson

By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1895)
Context: p>King, tried in fires of woe!
Men hunger for thy grace:
And through the night I go,
Loving thy mournful face. Yet, when the city sleeps;
When all the cries are still:
The stars and heavenly deeps
Work out a perfect will.</p

Star , Sleep , Perfection

“Which are more full of fate:
The stars; or those sad eyes?
Which are more still and great:
Those brows; or the dark skies?”

Lionel Johnson

By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1895)

Fate , Sadness , Star

“Now from the broken tower, what solemn bell still tolls,
Mourning what piteous death? Answer, O saddened souls!
Who mourn the death of beauty and the death of grace.”

Lionel Johnson

The Age of a Dream (1890)

Death , Beauty , Soul

“Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
To rid the world of penitence:
Malicious Angel, who still dost
My soul such subtile violence!”

Lionel Johnson

The Dark Angel (1895)

World , Angels , Soul