Showing posts with label Invictus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Invictus. Show all posts

Thursday, May 20, 2010

For Starters

had no idea how hard it is to create a blog. geez.
all I wanted was to have a page of my own, you know, for my thoughts and blatherings haay
ah well this should do.

hey, how 'bout I post my new fave poem for starters?
don't feel like writing right now.
so, here goes.

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 circumstances
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of change
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 year
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.