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. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but... Western Medical Review - Page 1951909Full view - About this book
| 1895 - 722 pages
...Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. # # # # • Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the...Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 pages
...last to repudiate the solace suggested by Lesbia's lover, was more of a Stoic than an Epicurean : — Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the...of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It was not the negation of despair. He found the anodyne for that ' unconquerable soul,' of which his... | |
| 1919 - 580 pages
...more appropriately than to Harrison's those well-known lines of Henley which he loved to quote : — And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find...matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll ; I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. -yg LIST OF ORIGINAL... | |
| 1926 - 776 pages
...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. Beyond this...matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll; I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest... | |
| Hiram Erastus Butler - 1890 - 542 pages
...Sun, Irnos, his father, and became a hero and a beneficial deity. MARIE L. FAKRINGTON. UNCONQUERED. " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...and shall find me, unafraid. " It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate ; I am the captain... | |
| American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - 1909 - 398 pages
...winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeonings of chance ; My head is bloody but unbowed. "Beyond the place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of...Finds and shall find me unafraid. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll ; I am the master of my fate, I am the captain... | |
| 1905 - 1190 pages
...Ernest Henley, and inspired these lines, the finest assertion of the Free Will I have ever seen : " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...and shall find me, unafraid. " It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain... | |
| 1898 - 674 pages
...climbs slow, how slowly, Hut westward, look, the land is bright. TO RTHB BY WILLIAM ERNEST HEM.EY. Ol"l of the night that covers me. Black as the pit from...Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1893 - 198 pages
...swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes, The memories that follow ! 1874 rv To RTHB /"^\UT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from...menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. Jt matters not how strait the gate, .How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my... | |
| George Angier Gordon - 1893 - 338 pages
...have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but not bowed. " Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the...Finds and shall find me unafraid. " It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll; I am the master of my fate, I am the captain... | |
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