 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.  Miscellanies - Page 485by Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 334 pages
...also, 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 - 1907 - 152 pages
...has been 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 may be the... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1907 - 140 pages
...may be 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... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1908 - 88 pages
...wish that goes, The memories that follow ! IV IM RT HAMILTON BRUCE (1846-1899) /~\UT of the night that covers me, ^•^ Black as the Pit from pole to pole,...the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place... | |
 | Guy Thorne - 1908 - 360 pages
...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 from pole to pole, I thank...the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed. U. He turned off into... | |
 | 1908 - 1248 pages
...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 pole to pole I thank...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 - 1908 - 582 pages
...verses, also, 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... | |
 | 1912 - 402 pages
...power of making values for ourselves in certain cases. As Henley says : — " 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." There is also Joy, which we have seen to be the essential element in the passion of Love. Fear cannot... | |
 | Dame Ellen Terry - 1908 - 542 pages
...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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