 | 1906 - 122 pages
...the less How beautiful it is to be alive, William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) Iwviftus OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...must perish — let it not be he Whom thou art sworn to obey ! HERBERT TRENCH Invictus of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1906 - 72 pages
...his own creations. That which is in the man is greater than all that he can do. " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody but not bowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 pages
...executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God. JOHN PTERPONT. INVICTUS Our of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from Pole to Pole,...circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeon ings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 894 pages
...such men and women as can match the grim, exultant courage of Henley's poem, — " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud, Under the blndgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. " Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1906 - 738 pages
...of self-revelation, — the poem that opens with the stanza, .. : " ,. ., „.. " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul," — which is worthy of a place beside " The Old Stoic " of Emily Bronte. The final section entitled... | |
 | May Sinclair - 1906 - 316 pages
...his own. Presently he broke out in a voice that throbbed thickly with emotion — " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul " He had found the music that matched his mood. He chanted — " It matters not how strait the gate,... | |
 | 1906 - 380 pages
...are master of yourself. As your suffering but indomitable poet sings triumphantly : Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...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... | |
 | May Sinclair - 1906 - 318 pages
...his own. Presently he broke out in a voice that throbbed thickly with emotion — " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul " He had found the music that matched his mood. He chanted — " It matters not how strait the gate,... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...better live than we, though less they know, DRYDEN, Palamon and Arcite, lines 2120-2129 Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul, W, E, HENLEY, Out of the Night That Covers Me, st, I Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As... | |
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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. 
