 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.  The Monist - Page 471edited by - 1905Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Guy Thorne - English fiction - 1908 - 360 pages
...words of a poet of our time, but had he done so, they would have well expressed his attitude — . Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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
...a western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY 842. Invictus 1849-1903 OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1908 - 1248 pages
...faithfully as ever. Henley's stoical lines might have been written of him as he was -in those last days : Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from...unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance 1 have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbow'd.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Books - 1908 - 582 pages
...There are fine verses, also, scattered through this little book ; some of them very strong, as — Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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... | |
 | Sociology - 1912 - 402 pages
...also for our own limited power of making values for ourselves in certain cases. As Henley says : — " Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul." There is also Joy, which we have seen to be the essential element in the passion of Love. Fear cannot... | |
 | Henry Frank - 1908 - 280 pages
...your thoughts, your resolves, your persistence, that your life shall re-echo the cry of the poet : " In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced...bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; / am the master cf my... | |
 | Edwin Alfred Robert Rumball-Petre - Free thought - 1908 - 196 pages
...the battle longest that we may have the joy of victory, the strength of men and the glory of gods". ''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... | |
 | Dame Ellen Terry - Actors - 1908 - 490 pages
...faithfully as ever. Henley's stoical lines might have been written of him as he was in these last days : " 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... | |
 | Dame Ellen Terry - Actors - 1908 - 676 pages
...faithfully as ever. Henley's stoical lines might have been written of him as he was in these last days : "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... | |
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