Walt Whitman - True Conquerers (AKA Antigone)

Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!
Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all— in that alone,

True conquerors o'er all the rest.

I thought this summed up Antigone because although Antigone was young, she was wise and transcendent beyond her years. She emerged from her final trial in death, but through her death she acheived more than she could have with her life. A true conqueror.