 | Animal psychology - 1906 - 380 pages
...yourself. As your suffering but indomitable poet sings triumphantly : Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my... | |
 | 1903 - 652 pages
...his verse, of •which the following is a characteristic example : Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods mar be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud,... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - Baptists - 1907 - 264 pages
...who may not have been a Pagan, but who certainly was not a saint: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever...circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 334 pages
...scattered through this little book ; some of them very strong, as — "Out of the night that covers me. Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my... | |
 | Norris Clarion Sprigg - American poetry - 1907 - 152 pages
...explored, Can live where the grass can Or hardihood or hard. * * * '' Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. Beyond this place of mist and fears, Looms but the horror and the shade, And yet the menace of the... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1907 - 868 pages
...: "Out of the night that shelters me Black as a pit, from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods there be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud ; Beneath the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but not bowed. However straight... | |
 | Frank Ballard - Free will and determinism - 1907 - 140 pages
...well, because strongly and nobly, expressed by a non-Christian poet.1 Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried... | |
 | Guy Thorne - English fiction - 1908 - 360 pages
...had he done so, they would have well expressed his attitude — . Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever...bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed. U. He turned off into a by-street, and walked on till he came to the docks. His progress was quite... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1908 - 1098 pages
...thunder of the Odyssey. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY 842. Invictus 1849-1903 OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever...of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. tinder the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears... | |
 | Edwin Alfred Robert Rumball-Petre - Free thought - 1908 - 196 pages
...''Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of...of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond the place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of the shade; And yet the menace of the years, Finds,... | |
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Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. 
