{"id":378,"date":"2010-04-24T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=378"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:14:13","slug":"invictus-by-william-ernest-henley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/invictus-by-william-ernest-henley\/","title":{"rendered":"INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamErnestHenley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-379 lazyload\" title=\"WilliamErnestHenley\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamErnestHenley-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamErnestHenley-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/WilliamErnestHenley.jpg 317w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 190px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 190\/300;\" \/><\/a>William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)<\/p>\n<p>INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley<\/p>\n<p>Out of the night that covers me,<br \/>\nBlack as the Pit from pole to pole,<br \/>\nI thank whatever gods may be<br \/>\nFor my unconquerable soul.<br \/>\nIn the fell clutch of circumstance<br \/>\nI have not winced nor cried aloud.<br \/>\nUnder the bludgeonings of chance<br \/>\nMy head is bloody, but unbowed.<br \/>\nBeyond this place of wrath and tears<br \/>\nLooms but the Horror of the shade,<br \/>\nAnd yet the menace of the years<br \/>\nFinds, and shall find, me unafraid.<br \/>\nIt matters not how strait the gate,<br \/>\nHow charged with punishments the scroll,<br \/>\nI am the master of my fate:<br \/>\nI am the captain of my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,409,428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-depression-poems","category-inspirational-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}