Quotes from book
Invictus
"Invictus" is a short poem by the Victorian era English poet William Ernest Henley . It was written in 1875 and published in 1888 in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the section Life and Death . It shows how Henley never lost hope and kept faith in himself and faced the struggles unafraid.
This may have inspired later lines of "A Challenge" from "Quatrains" by James Benjamin Kenyon, published in An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1901) edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman:
Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew,
Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate;
No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue:
Be the proud captain still of thine own fate.
Invictus (1875)
“Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
Invictus (1875)
Context: In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
