Invictus
by William Ernest Henley ***
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 unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years 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 of my soul.
- Morgan Freeman recites ‘Invictus’ from memory on Charlie Rose - YouTube
- Poetry: “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley (read by Tom Hiddleston) (12/06) - YouTube
- Written in 1875, first published 1888 in Henley’s first volume of poems, Book of Verses.
- Full text scanned PDF: Book of Verses
- Image of poem from original book
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