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Victorian

Lionel Johnson

1867–1902

Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) was an English poet and critic associated with the Rhymers' Club and the Decadent movement of the 1890s.

A convert to Catholicism, his spare, disciplined verse turned repeatedly to faith, monastic ideals, and the pull of dissipation he struggled against.

Poems (127)

  1. Winchester
  2. To Morfydd
  3. I.
  4. A Burden of Easter Vigil
  5. III
  6. V.
  7. VI
  8. The Precept of Silence
  9. Hill and Vale
  10. To Ocean Hazard: Gipsy
  11. To a Traveller
  12. Lines to a Lady Upon Her Third Birthday
  13. The Troopship
  14. Dead
  15. II
  16. IV
  17. The Dark Angel
  18. A Friend
  19. To a Passionist
  20. To Leo Xiii
  21. To a Spanish Friend
  22. To My Patrons
  23. Moel Fammau
  24. Consolation
  25. The Destroyer of a Soul
  26. Our Lady of the Snows
  27. To Certain Friends
  28. A Proselyte
  29. Beyond
  30. Mystic and Cavalier
  31. Te Martyrum Candidatus
  32. The Church of a Dream
  33. Ways of War
  34. The Red Wind
  35. Celtic Speech
  36. Oxford
  37. Cadgwith
  38. By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross
  39. In Memory of M. B.
  40. Plato in London
  41. In Falmouth Harbour (II)
  42. A Friend
  43. Laleham
  44. Our Lady of France
  45. In Memory (I)
  46. In Memory (II)
  47. In Memory (IV)
  48. Gwynedd
  49. A Cornish Night
  50. Parnell
  51. In England
  52. Upon a Drawing
  53. The Roman Stage
  54. Summer Storm
  55. Hawthorne
  56. Glories
  57. The Coming of War
  58. Ireland's Dead
  59. Harmonies
  60. The Last Music
  61. A Dream of Youth
  62. Romans
  63. Sancta Silvarum (I)
  64. Sancta Silvarum (III)
  65. Bagley Wood
  66. A Song of Israel
  67. Men of Assisi
  68. Men of Aquino
  69. Lucretius
  70. Enthusiasts
  71. Cadgwith (I)
  72. Cadgwith (III)
  73. Visions
  74. At the Burial of Cardinal Manning
  75. Vigils
  76. The Age of a Dream
  77. Oxford Nights
  78. Comfort
  79. Sortes Virgilianae
  80. Oracles
  81. Ash Wednesday
  82. Desideria
  83. Arma Virumque
  84. The Day of Coming Days
  85. Renegade
  86. Wales
  87. Harvest
  88. The Petition
  89. The Classics
  90. April
  91. Experience
  92. Escape
  93. Trentals
  94. Sertorius
  95. Saint Columba
  96. Bells
  97. Dawn of Revolution
  98. A Dream
  99. Friends
  100. To Passions
  101. Songs
  102. Ninety-Eight
  103. Vinum Daemonum
  104. Heddon's Mouth
  105. A Death
  106. Grace
  107. At Eton
  108. The Gloom
  109. Right and Might
  110. Nihilism
  111. Victory
  112. Evening in Wales
  113. Timon
  114. Upon Reading Certain Poems
  115. Cornwall
  116. Flos Florum
  117. Propheta Gentium
  118. Child of War
  119. The End
  120. Late Love
  121. Windermere
  122. July
  123. To a Friend
  124. Walter Pater
  125. Comrades
  126. To the Dead of '98
  127. Ireland

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