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In the Arena
Posted by: jrg (---.nas3.ijamsville1.md.us.da.qwest.net)
Date: December 03, 2021 10:01PM

I am looking for the poem about the hero, "bloody but unbowed" who struggles with real challenges while the criticizers and complainers carp and do nothing.


Re: In the Arena
Posted by: J.H.SUMMERS (---.chartertn.net)
Date: December 03, 2021 10:08PM

jrg,

It is from Invictus by William E. Henley

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.

jhs


Re: In the Arena
Posted by: jrg (---.nas3.ijamsville1.md.us.da.qwest.net)
Date: December 04, 2021 12:02PM

That has the right spirit, but is not the writing I am looking for. What I am looking for may not be a "poem" except in the ancient Jewish sence. It is probably unrhymed, but has lines of similar length. It specifically praises the man "in the arena"


Re: In the Arena
Posted by: Linda (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 04, 2021 06:39PM

Try this page.
[www.thesojourners.org] />
Probably not what you were looking for, but same spirit.


Re: In the Arena
Posted by: jrg (---.nas2.ijamsville1.md.us.da.qwest.net)
Date: December 06, 2021 03:35PM

Thanks, Linda. Your author obviously referred to the piece I am looking for. That was an inspiring statement.


Re: In the Arena
Posted by: StephenFryer (---.cl1.dsl.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 08, 2021 03:51PM

Author: Tandy (158.sui213.atln.attga31ur.dsl.att.net)
Date: 12-08-03 14:15

Would someone who can post in the Lost Poetry section please post this in answer to jrg's topic "In the Arena":

You may be thinking of a speech made at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, on April 23, 1910, by Theodore Roosevelt, entitled "The Man in the Arena." The part you may be thinking of is: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

See [www.theodore-roosevelt.com] />

Stephen


Re: In the Arena
Posted by: jrg (---.nas3.ijamsville1.md.us.da.qwest.net)
Date: December 09, 2021 12:00AM

Thank you very much, Steven. That is the thing I needed. Sorry, it wasnt technically a poem, though when properly paragraphed it has the form of blank verse.




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