 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - Liberty - 1909 - 360 pages
...in spite of a reminiscence in the one poem that everybody knows, how bravely its verse runs : — " In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed." It was a boast, but a defiant boast that suffering justified, and by reason of that concentrated defiance... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 324 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... | |
 | Bolton Hall - Conduct of life - 1909 - 300 pages
...that one must endure; nothing can satisfy but successful endurance. 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. LOVE, AND PEACE In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings... | |
 | Anna Robeson Brown Burr - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1909 - 504 pages
...intellectual life holds the only enduring and vital happiness which humanity is like to know, since " Beyond this place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of the shade." And if through the expression and operation of their genius so many persons draw happiness and health,... | |
 | Frank Oliver Hall - Sermons, American - 1909 - 232 pages
...which must determine which of these two hemispheres it will inhabit. "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... | |
 | Deaf - 1919 - 850 pages
...Henley's "Lines to TH R" : "Out of the night that covers me. Black as the Pit from pole to pole, 1 th;:nk whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. "In...shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and sb:ill lind, me unafraid. "It matters not how strait the gate. How charged with punishments the scroll,... | |
 | Fatos Lubonja - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 180 pages
...to pale,/ 1 thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul/In thefell clutch ofcircumstance/ I have not winced nor cried aloud./ Under the bludgeonings...My head is bloody, but unbowed./ Beyond this place ofwrath and tears/ Looms but the Horror of the shade,/ And yet the menace of the years/ Finds, and... | |
 | Jasmine Guy - African American women - 2004 - 248 pages
...weapons. Like 'Invictus.' 'Invictus' is a powerful poem for a child. 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." Afeni recites with the strength and inflection of Maya Angelou. She isn't loud, but her intensity grows... | |
 | Joshua Blu Buhs - Nature - 2004 - 234 pages
...xii. Chapter One: From South America to the American South, 1900-1950 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. William Ernest Henley, "Invictus" The red imported fire ant, noted journalist Charles Haddad in 1990,... | |
 | Edwin H. Hamilton - Religion - 2004 - 150 pages
...God's son - Jesus Christ. The writer of "Invictus" wrote "Out of the night that covers me black as a pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be for my unconquerable soul. I am the master of my fate, I arn the captain of my soul." That was in Invictus, but the book (Bible)... | |
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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. 
