"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
David Nutt
Date
1888
Metaphor
"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
Metaphor in Context
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.
(ll. 1-4)
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
(ll. 1-4)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
William Ernest Henley, Poems (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920): 83-84. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
04/20/2011
