Lyric-Scroll 023 : Invictus by William Ernest Henley: When Your Soul Wears Steel-Toed Boots and Stares Down the Universe
A Poem Where Pain Bows, Darkness Waits, and the Poet’s Spine Doesn’t Flinch ABS Believes:Some poems wear armor. This one is the armor.If dignity had a literary anthem, it would rhyme like this and walk like thunder. Henley: Poet, Amputee, and Unshakable Human Tank William Ernest Henley didn’t write Invictus to impress the Victorian literati. […]