Invictus - W. E. Henley (Powerful Life Poetry) 

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!

"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible".- Francis of Assisi.

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!!

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.

“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” Gave me chills. I love this. 🖤

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear that you will make one.

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.

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.

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the strength to overcome it”

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,

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

"And yet the menace of the years, finds, and shall find me, unafraid."

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul

An absolute gem of a poem. These are words I try to live by since we all have to go through some trauma.

I will be memorizing this one.

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.

One of the most powerful poems ever written... wow.

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.

I have learned this poem by heart I love it so much. In hard times I say it and feel immediately better.

This is the first poem I ever discovered, and finding an audio version of this is just blissful.

Thank you God!!! For my unconquerable soul.

One of my favorite poems!

One of my favorites!

Wzruszenie, wdzięczność, współodczuwanie. Popłakałam się. Dziękuję z umysłu i serca. Życzę zbawienia wszystkim.

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.

Yes, Im the captain of my fate. This line touches my heart

A Good Quote, Count your blessings not your problems.

Gorgeous!!!!! I love all poetry read by Shane Morris! What a wonderful piece of art.

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.

TY 🙏 gratitude.

Each and every word touches the heart and shivers the soul. Brings an electrifying feeling. I'm glad that this came to my suggestion list. I Thank Whatever Gods May be For My Unconquerable Soul

One of the greatest poems I've ever read.

That voice... ❤️❤️

These poems keeps a blade from slashing through my veins

That was the best reading I've ever heard.

Powerful poem, Invictus. Yes I am invincible and yes I am in fact my own leader

This poem always gives me hope.

Background music is always godlike. It has emotion, soul,... These artists deserve more!

It's the way he whispers "years"

I'm so stoked

My beginning English students read Invictus every Monday. There is a powerful message in the lines of this poem.

Absolutely powerful

Wow , so inspiring

Such truths i love this

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

Glorious

Very cool and life-affirming poem! A great genius wrote it in the old days. Man is the master of his own destiny. When someone tries to destroy it with sorcery and take the place of God, one should not forget that every soul is not alone in this world. We have ancestors up to the 7th generation and in their army there are at least 20 people with magical abilities. When such ancestors send us with a mission to this Earth, it is only for them to decide our fate, not for the enemy.

This work and "If" by Kipling have been my map for many years.

This gave me chills. Perfectly read! Thanks. :)

Extreme motivation to persevere....all i need to keep going

So the villain Invictus from Final Space literally was based from this very poem. How cool and awesome is that!

Two things have altered not Since first the World began The beauty of the wild green earth And the bravery of man

I was waiting for this video, Thank you.

This was so amazingly outstanding 👍🔱🧿🙏💯👌🏻

The greatest poem a man learn

My favourite reading of this

I love it so so much. Thank you, this came up right when I needed it. Bless you 💜💜

Loved it 💖 Thank you 🙂

My most favorite poem

❤ this poem, challenges we face, in our darkest hour's

That so great

Voice so deep❤️

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!

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 RU-vid channel because of this powerful life poetry content.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Have my students memorize this poem , and recite it aloud using accuracy , automaticity , and especially prosody. Well read Mr. Morris

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

Лучшее стихотворение, которое я слышал.

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.

Un poem prea frumos, chiar și pentru cei vrednici să-l asculte.

So Good!

A most powerful poem that lingers forever . . ."I am the master of my Fate... I am the captain of my Soul"

Good poem, well read also.

Much needed....

I had this poem as a part my syllabus in my graduation.

My head is bloody but unbowed. I love that line. You will always get the shit kicked out of you but never bow your head instead fight through it. Blood will be whipped away but the fight can never be taken away

This will be the poem that will be read at my funeral. And the inscription ‘Invictus’ will adorn my grave.

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.

Amen

I'm sorry but Shane Morris is just the best reader right now🤷🏽‍♂️🙌🏼

All right!! INVICTUS!!

Ig the poem is written by the poet when he was suffering with tuberculosis, true legend

Invictus, a timeless and inspirational piece of work 🙏🏼 you really know to pick em’! 💪🏼

This channel never fails to motivate and inspire me and give me hope for my small poetry channel ❤

Amazing

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes

They kingdom come they will be done amen

Food for the soul…

Words for the nonesense we face today!

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Amazing poem. I can see how Mandela used it to sustain himself in the darkest time of his life.

The background dong is caled King by Tony Anderson

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.

You need a Spotify Playlist..plz 🥺

one day, I will come here to give credit to this masterpiece. soon!

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

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

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