This poem is in the public domain. O, Gather Me the Rose O, gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, And winter waits behind it!
For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed forborne for ever, The worm, regret, will canker on, And time will turn him never. So well it were to love, my love, And cheat of any laughter The death beneath us and above, The dark before and after.
The myrtle and the rose, the rose, The sunshine and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes, The memories that follow! William Ernest Henley November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June. The summer flowers are faded, the summer thoughts are sere. We'll go no more a-roving, lest worse befall, my dear. We'll go no more a-roving by the light of the moon.
The song we sang rings hollow, and heavy runs the tune. Glad ways and words remembered would shame the wretched year. We'll go no more a-roving, nor dream we did, my dear.
If yet we walk together, we need not shun the moon. No sweet thing left to savour, no sad thing left to fear, We'll go no more a-roving, but weep at home, my dear. Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. Teach This Poem. Follow Us. Find Poets. Poetry Near You. Jobs for Poets. Is Invictus a true story? John Carlin wrote the book the movie Invictus is based on.
He interviewed Mandela three times about the momentous rugby game when South Africa won the World Cup in What poems did Mandela read? Nelson Mandela's Favorite Poem. Did Mandela read Invictus? This poem inspired him and other prison mates to stay put and keep going through the hard times. What is the main idea of Invictus? The central idea of the poem is the resilience of the human spirit in the face of extreme personal torment. To start, the poem has an interesting title, Invictus.
This Latin word is translated as unconquerable or invincible. What does Looms but the Horror of the shade mean? In this line from Henley's poem, "the shade" is death. So the "horror of the shade" is the horror of death. And it is the horrors of death as he puts it that are all that looms after this life this place of "wrath and tears.
What is meant by the place of wrath and fears? The "place of wrath and tears" refers to the world of the living, in which he is both angry and sorrowful at what he endures as a man with tuberculosis.
What lies beyond the pain and suffering of this life is "the Horror of the Shade", in other words, death, in which one becomes a shade or shadow of one's former self. What is the meaning of Out of the night that covers me? The first stanza of "Invictus" is "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.
Every aspect of their life is like the 'pit' or hell. What does strait the gate mean?
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