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The best poem?

i am asked to bring a poem that i like to class, and that it has a nice messege. i also need to know who is the author, and find similes ect. in it. any ideas of good poems out there. it must be a very deep poem! thank so much.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Read this poem and see if it moves you:

Invictus

by William Ernest Henley; 1849-1903

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.