`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, where it is the fourth poem in the section Life and Death (Echoes). It originally had no title. Early printings contained only the dedication To R. T. H. B.—a r..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus
(from the article `Henley, William Ernest`) ...were published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1875; the whole sequence appeared in A Book of Verses (1888). Dating from the same period is his most ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/36