 | 1906 - 810 ページ
...heathens go, Who 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...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... | |
 | 1906 - 380 ページ
...predetermined ; you alone are master of yourself. As your suffering but indomitable poet sings triumphantly : Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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... | |
 | 1903 - 652 ページ
...rugged temper of the man is shown in his verse, of •which the following is a characteristic example : Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods mar be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud,... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - 1907 - 264 ページ
...quotations one from a modern man who may not have been a Pagan, but who certainly was not a saint: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 334 ページ
...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... | |
 | Norris Clarion Sprigg - 1907 - 152 ページ
...no longer, Most all 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...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... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1907 - 140 ページ
...unreservedly submits. The former 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1907 - 856 ページ
...he might have had some foreglimpse of this loving tribute when from his bed of pain he was writing " Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole ! " The poet of the " unconquerable soul," it will be remembered, dared to speak his mind a few years... | |
 | Thomas Edward Watson - 1907 - 868 ページ
...: "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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1908 - 1098 ページ
...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... | |
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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. 
