 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...  World's Work - Page 482edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Adeline Sergeant - 1898 - 264 pages
...in a low, level voice, which seemed to her curiously passionless, he repeated the lines in question: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...whatever gods there be, For my unconquerable soul. "In the fell clutch of circumstance, . I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1898 - 286 pages
...and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes, The memories that follow ! 1874 IT To RTHB 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.... | |
 | 1898 - 812 pages
...ill-mannered response to such a command as came to St. Paul by Damascus bidding him to stand upon his feet. "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... | |
 | Helen Wilmans Post - 1898 - 176 pages
...knowledge of the Law, or closer conformity with it. CHAPTER IX. THE EGO. "Out of the night that shelters me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul." The much repetition of the foregoing pages would be unpardonable but for the fact that nothing short... | |
 | May Sinclair - 1898 - 330 pages
...for any ideas but 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, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul " He had found the music that matched his mood. He chanted— " It... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - 1899 - 312 pages
...highest aim, chanting, perhaps, in the spirit, if not in the words of the Spartan poet of to-day : — " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul." Ay, thanks to the Inspirer, to the darkling Supporter and Sustainer, many such there be ! And the little... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - 1901 - 538 pages
...of defeat, as the splendid defiance of this modern outburst of the stoic mood makes evident : — " 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. 1 Cf. Goethe's " Prometheus " : — Prometheus. Vermocht Ihr zu scheiden... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 pages
...change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall. Arthur Hugh dough INVICTUS 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... | |
 | 1903 - 1028 pages
...treatment : while his discharge was followed by the composition of his best-known poem, reading thus : "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.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1901 - 196 pages
...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 from pole to pole. I thank whatever gods may be "-••!•. For my unconquerable soul. " It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with... | |
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