Invictus - W. E. Henley (Powerful Life Poetry)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Read by Shane Morris
Music by Tony Anderson
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One of the greatest poems ever written; Invictus is a rallying cry for those fighting hard times.
After being diagnosed with tuberculosis, W. E. Henley wrote Invictus in hospital while undergoing treatment on his left leg, which was amputated from the knee down. He was still only a young man at that time and wrote the poem as a demonstration of his resilience in fighting the disease.
Invictus was said to have shed light into the darker corners of his life when all else failed.
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Full Poem:
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 unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace 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,
I am the captain of my soul.
#invictus
May the lines of Invictus shed light into the darker corners of your life when all else fails. Don't forget to drop a Thumbs Up on the video if you'd like to hear more from us!
Can you do saddest quotes please?
Dear Redfrost, is there any way in which we can listen to your powerful poetry without internet connection, on spotify for instance?
Love this poem. I do hope you can eventually narrate 'The man in the glass'. I feel like it would be a worthy addition.
need a chris lines narration of this!
@@stenhendrix8538 yes we've got something in the works - will keep you updated!
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. We never lose. We only win or we learn!!
We definitely lose. There is no shame in that.
Many mountains of years I've climbed and the best is the crest, to view from the peak a peek at the hill still a thrill to know there are many more to go.
Thank you for this quote. Will be using this in my personal book/journal :)) labeled you as "anonymous"
@@justuspinckney2234 Yes we do lose, but we view those losses as a learning opportunities to improve ourselves
Only he who ceases to move forward ever truly loses
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible".-
Francis of Assisi.
True 👍
*"Just pick a goal, a goal you truly want to achieve, and take a clear-eyed look at your weaknesses--not so you'll feel less confident, but so you can determine exactly what you need to work on. Then get to work. Celebrate small successes. Analyze your weaknesses. Keep going. As you gain skill, you'll also gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away--because you've earned it."*
Have a great day!
فرانسيس؟ يعنى مش الاستاذ معتز الكاشف!؟
“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” Gave me chills. I love this. 🖤
Like 9 hey there beautiful soul didn’t know you listen to red motivation as well This is one of my favorite I’ve been following them since the beginning love there poetries this one is my favorite i share some of their poetries on my channel Hope you’re doing well can’t wait for yours to come out as well ♥️💜💕🙏💯❤️🥰
@@Universalhealing1122 hehe, yes! This is actually one of the first pages I followed along with as well! My favourite too! ♥️ Thank you for your kind words! I hope you had a great weekend, my gem of a friend. 💎 🌹
@@alifewithpoetry very nice yes I did had a fantastic weekend hope you did as well gorgeous soul 🙏🔱💯🧿🌌😍🥰
You are beautiful....I praise beauty..💜
Yes
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.-
Muhammad Ali.
Love that quote.
This poem can be read as rebelious, stoic, hopefull, or a warcry while facing impossible odds and i love it
💝
This poem has been a great source of inspiration and strenght this last year.
It started when my wife of 15 years cheated on me, we were childhood sweethearts.
She then up and left me and our 3 kids all alone for 3 months. When she came back and wanted to se the kids they refused, so she said it was my fault and retaliated with accusing me of rape and violence.
Neither police nor social workers believed me. But they had nothing but her lies.
Today the kids still with me, refusing to see thier mom, and they are so much happier now than ever before.
Blessed Father to your beautiful fortunate children ❤ (from a grandma whose son is a good father too)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear that you will make one.
I learned this poem in 7th grade and I'm 75 now. It's always been my compass in life. No one can live your life but you is what it taught me. Don't allow others to define your mission or behavior. It's the most powerful message I have ever heard. W.E Henly was a Genius,
I am Arabian and muslim by faith, your channel has been a great discovery for me as a student of English literature. Thank youfor introducing this awesome motivational poem to us.
Cheers!
Salamwalaykum brother!
@@yami4910 ve aleyküm es selam
@@yami4910 wa 'alaykumusalam.
Lips of a unknown face hahaha but lips of a face of one that one stranger on a bus .like moving in two places or reaching out for the stars but only blank space fill the skyline over the herizon of the city over looking the water ocean the sea. While looking over the ocean while looking over the ocean what can you see on the other side is there a wall or just a sky with the letter that a lady built for mystery reason which people are phones to the faceSchool info can't change whether than front of your face or behind your face their nature in color shows instant the soul begins speak
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the strength to overcome it”
Nelson Mandela used to read this poem while in jail. It kept him alive during those harsh times, inspiring him, keeping his faith unbreakable. Such a deep poem, filled with wisdom.
Thanks man a lot for those poems! You even inspired me to write my own poem(below):
How can the man that never fell in the bottomless pit,
Taste the full flavours of climbing the highest peak?
Man is only content when his sacrifices are picked
A strong man is only strong when others are weak
How can victory have any taste when defeat was never served ?
Truth is only real because of the lies that men speak
Man's path to paradise is through hell-fire burned
Thanks for anyone who read it! It's not the most well written poem but it speaks for my soul! You guys go overcome your pains and discover bliss. Much love
That's great
This is a good Poem. I especially like how A person can appreciate the truthe true sentiment and value of yet of victory by 1st understanding defeat, Yet much in the same way that the top of the mountain that diverse inclines is that is that much more worth it because of a climb itself. Your poem actually reminds me of 1 of 2 phrases spoken at the end of the Warrior quotes video that they have on this same channel "He who has never suffered, will not sufficiently temper his character." -Yamato Tsunetomo
Very powerful!
@@aaaaaaa6954 you're great!
@@doublejace thanks for your analysis! You nailed it
This poem built my life.
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul
Mmmmhmmm
My favourite poem!
"And yet the menace of the years, finds, and shall find me, unafraid."
AMEN!!!!!!!
Before this channel I didn’t listen to poetry, after more then a year I have started writing my own. It’s been like therapy for me. I can’t leave without saying the man who recite them have the most amazing voices ever. It just adds to it. So thanks for helping me through covid an for introducing to these amazing poets. ♥️
This is my favorite poem. I've got it memorized, and often repeat it to myself when I'm struggling. I was watching some of your other videos and was delighted to see you had it up, you did a great job, love your videos.
Thank you God!!!
For my unconquerable soul.
I have learned this poem by heart I love it so much. In hard times I say it and feel immediately better.
This poem helped me immensely when I got out of the military. My head was a complete mess. The world I had adjusted too, and the lesson I learned, didn't make sense anymore. I felt so distant from the world and so out of place, yet I couldn't/wouldn't return to the hell I knew so well. I found this poem at the end of the first year out, when I was at my lowest. It felt like it spoke to my soul and I read it a few times a week still.
Similar experience. 20 years of running around the world non-stop. Lost a family. I understand where you’re coming from. And, I agree, about the poem. Some words can really strengthen our resolve to be better. If you want some more epicness for your day, check out a song by The Green called “Power In The Words.” I hope you like it. And, if you have a minute, say Hey and let me know how you’re doing these days, John.
Well, I hope.
And UNCONQUERABLE.
This is the first poem I ever discovered, and finding an audio version of this is just blissful.
Yes,
Im the captain of my fate.
This line touches my heart
I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul
One of my favorites!
Wzruszenie, wdzięczność, współodczuwanie. Popłakałam się. Dziękuję z umysłu i serca.
Życzę zbawienia wszystkim.
A Good Quote, Count your blessings not your problems.
I’m Russian. But this words became the hymn of my life. First i read Russian interpretation of this poem, but then discovered original version. Than I feel hurt or weakness I start to recite this poem. And it helps me to gain power to fight this f**ing world again.
I love this poem so much I committed it to memory in middle school. I tell it to myself anytime I feel down. In this there is strength.
It's the way he whispers "years"
Best voice in literary readings
Glorious
Very nice 👍
My beginning English students read Invictus every Monday. There is a powerful message in the lines of this poem.
I was waiting for this video, Thank you.
Nope ,you are new it was uploaded before.
@@invictus1744 I know but it is in a collection, I was waiting for a seperate one read by shane. I listen to Invictus almost everyday✌️
Background music is always godlike. It has emotion, soul,... These artists deserve more!
Invictus, what powerful life poetry by W. E. Hendry.
So, irony and inspiring phrases for a bad time of life. ⭐⭐⭐
Very very strongly recited.👍👍👍
I'm a beloved fan of this RUclips channel because of this powerful life poetry content.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My most favorite poem
That was the best reading I've ever heard.
Memorized this in my high school and lately, I realized that I never forgot the 1st verse and the last two lines of this poem 😂 I searched it online and now everyday, I recite the whole poem in my heart every morning.
My anxiety creaps in me everyday and kinda prevented me from moving ahead for years. Fears, dark imaginings, ugly judgements, and the hopeless dark view of the world in my eyes made me think that whatever I do, it wouldn't matter because everything will fail. Reciting poems I remembered in my youth but never understood before, now mattered so much as if some pretty ladder fell from the sky and beckoned me to climbed high again. It was a weird feeling, but warm and ticklish in the heart. I'm kinda thankful it was written and left for us to undertand
I'm so stoked
Two things have altered not
Since first the World began
The beauty of the wild green earth
And the bravery of man
This poem always gives me hope.
This work and "If" by Kipling have been my map for many years.
TY 🙏 gratitude.
I had this poem as a part my syllabus in my graduation.
*"Just pick a goal, a goal you truly want to achieve, and take a clear-eyed look at your weaknesses--not so you'll feel less confident, but so you can determine exactly what you need to work on. Then get to work. Celebrate small successes. Analyze your weaknesses. Keep going. As you gain skill, you'll also gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away--because you've earned it."*
Have a great day!
@@bethepioneer2143 ❤️
So the villain Invictus from Final Space literally was based from this very poem. How cool and awesome is that!
Amen
A most powerful poem that lingers forever . . ."I am the master of my Fate... I am the captain of my Soul"
This was so amazingly outstanding 👍🔱🧿🙏💯👌🏻
The background dong is caled King by Tony Anderson
I own an original copy of the anthology that contains this poem - a fairly nondescript old book dating from the 19th century and a treasure, found by chance at the Last Bookstore in LA.
I just graduated with an aerospace engineering degree and it was tough, the anxiety of failure, no jobs and such. It's sort of common from what I have seen at least, so I wanted to leave an inspirational poem in this room where all seniors study or gather. I wrote down The Builder by HW Longfellow but now that I think about it, this would have been better
This gave me chills. Perfectly read! Thanks. :)
Ig the poem is written by the poet when he was suffering with tuberculosis, true legend
That voice... ❤️❤️
My favourite reading of this
I'm sorry but Shane Morris is just the best reader right now🤷🏽♂️🙌🏼
This channel never fails to motivate and inspire me and give me hope for my small poetry channel ❤
Saw this in a Facebook group and immediately knew that I had to get it as my next tattoo. Now I can look at it everyday as a reminder of my resilience and the resilience of my fellow survivors. So empowering.
The whole poem?
Have my students memorize this poem , and recite it aloud using accuracy , automaticity , and especially prosody. Well read Mr. Morris
They kingdom come they will be done amen
True ❤️👍
*"Just pick a goal, a goal you truly want to achieve, and take a clear-eyed look at your weaknesses--not so you'll feel less confident, but so you can determine exactly what you need to work on. Then get to work. Celebrate small successes. Analyze your weaknesses. Keep going. As you gain skill, you'll also gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away--because you've earned it."*
Have a great day!
Legit was dealing with remembering some traumatic times (healthcare worker, during covid, in an inner-city hospital that seems like everyone w covid was sent to).
Was bordering on either possible panic attack, or some s* similar, and this poem read by you all helped me re-ground myself.
Know it's not much coming from yet another anon schmuck over the internet, but thank you. Helped me calm down enough to get to bed tonight without (for the first and hopefully only time I legit considered) resorting to the bottle.
Good luck in all your ventures, and know you've helped at least one schmuck in a dark place.
❤ this poem, challenges we face, in our darkest hour's
Such truths i love this
Superbly recited! Giving such chills! Dedicating this to the inspirational in our lives who make us believe that progress is possible with the right amount of dedication, patience and effort!
Wow , so inspiring
Invictus, a timeless and inspirational piece of work 🙏🏼 you really know to pick em’! 💪🏼
Enjoyed your heartwarming poem and excellent reading.
I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor.
Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary:
Bashō’s frog
four hundred years
of ripples
At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water".
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain.
~~
And my tanka:
returning home
from a Jackson Pollock
exhibition
I smear my face with paint
and turn into art
~~
-All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida.
Al
The greatest poem a man learn
Extreme motivation to persevere....all i need to keep going
Absolutely powerful
I love it so so much. Thank you, this came up right when I needed it. Bless you 💜💜
Un poem prea frumos, chiar și pentru cei vrednici să-l asculte.
This is is some powerful stuff
You need a Spotify Playlist..plz 🥺
I'm Ill so this was great thank you.
I wish you healing and will pray for that
Hope you get better soon 🙏🏼
Get well soon! :)
Love,light and healing go out to you to make you better.
To all of you sending positive vibes and kind words thank you. I wish good health and success for all of you ♥️.
Amazing poem. I can see how Mandela used it to sustain himself in the darkest time of his life.
one day, I will come here to give credit to this masterpiece. soon!
That so great
"I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul." TY to Prince Harry and the annual Invictus Games for reminding each year of this mind strengthening and uplifting poem.🙏
Good poem, well read also.
I listen to this while cleaning my room.
As I sit here for the past 34 minutes(and by 34 minutes, I mean 3 hours..don't judge me🤦♀️) debating on exactly which section of my room to "conquer" first. Think I'll play on repeat a couple (or 12 times!) Wish me luck!
Black as the pit from pole to pole.
So there is holes at the poles! Looks like the Admiral was speakin the truth. This poem is very telling. I innerstand
Loved it 💖 Thank you 🙂
For Papi 💜
We are the master of our fate
We are the captain of our soul
Лучшее стихотворение, которое я слышал.
I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. 😎
Yes ❤️
Those who want to pathologically control you ... fear love ... because it creates a world of freedom and happiness.
♥️♥️♥️♥️
This poem makes me not want to kill myself. Really nice.
The search for meaning in a meaningless world will make any man despair. The trick is recognizing the freedom that comes with no meaning, and the recognition that death ends all suffering, and that there is no need to bring about will come anyway, is the highest permittance of jubilation.
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 unbowed
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of shade
And yet the menace 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 fate
I am the captain of my soul
Words for the nonesense we face today!
I want to give mass effect a shout out for showing me invictus.
An absolute gem of a poem. These are words I try to live by since we all have to go through some trauma.
You’re right. Jung talked about this. Said something like a tree that had branches that reach into heaven has, by necessity, roots that also go into hell. I find this is true. Aloha. 🤙🏾🕉☯️
❤💖💖Indeed
Fate is such a funny thing... I just finished reading C.G. Jung Red Book a few minutes ago and you just added this video. It’s maybe another accident in my life but I want to believe it’s not :) as master oogway once said. Thank you for your work Redfrost ! Wish you best and all viewers !
P.S. I really apreaciate your work and I am missing a few of your productions from your channel which are deleted or copyright stricken from your channel I dunno. Can I find them somewhere ? Do you have a second channel for deleted videos or do you have an account on other websites that I can find them ? If you do I would be grateful to know as other people perhaps :)
Please, provide us your all playlists on Spotify podcast.
I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
Food for the soul…
So Good!
Much needed....