<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Book of Verses </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1888 </Td> </Tr> <P> "Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849--1903). It was written in 1875 and published in 1888 in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the section Life and Death (Echoes). </P>

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