| Robert Marion La Follette - 1913 - 876 pages
...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 aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged... | |
| Robert Marion La Follette - 1913 - 870 pages
...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 aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged... | |
| Ethel Maud Cookson Colquhoun - 1913 - 364 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods there be For my unconquerable soul. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, 1 am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul ! " Obviously, freedom of bodily action was... | |
| William Collison - 1913 - 434 pages
...out of hand and paid with interest. I never asked for any quarter in battle, I never expected any. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud, Perhaps the knowledge that so many of my own class have thought of me with murder in their hearts has... | |
| Carl Avery Werner - 1914 - 360 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. "'In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed ! ' " Brace up, Robert, brace up ! Take a good night's sleep and get your nerve back. We'll find a... | |
| Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield - 1915 - 152 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul. This is of course... | |
| Frederick Franklin Shannon - 1915 - 214 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. " In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." Now read Dorothea... | |
| James Albert Winans - 1915 - 504 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate. How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain... | |
| Geraldine Giordano - 2002 - 68 pages
...covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall f)nd, me unafraid It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am... | |
| Mary John - 2003 - 308 pages
...triumphing over adversity and disaster and the strength of the human spirit in such circumstances. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the...menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. (Henley 1875) Suedfeld introduces his argument by suggesting that the attitudes captured by this poem... | |
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