 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...  The Living Age - Page 1571903Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 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...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 pages
...he would have been the last to repudiate the solace suggested by Lesbia's lover, was more of a Stoic than an Epicurean : — Beyond this place of wrath...which his splendid Gasconade boasts, in the thought of valour and gallant action, in love, and art, and nature. He had the poet's consolation — the ' voice... | |
 | 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 me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll ; I am the master of my fate,... | |
 | 1926 - 776 pages
...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 the...of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll; I am the master of my fate;... | |
 | Hiram Erastus Butler - 1890 - 542 pages
...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...the years 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... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 582 pages
...I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My heart is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the...of the years 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... | |
 | 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...of the years 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,... | |
 | 1905 - 1190 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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...of the years 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,... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1893 - 198 pages
...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...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... | |
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