 | 1908 - 1086 pages
...digs i none too fat living out of the soil : Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoc and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. He rears a large family and is taught that herein he is doing his chief duty to the French-Canadian... | |
 | 1899 - 978 pages
...with the Hoe By Edwin Markham God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe...made him dead to rapture and despair, A. thing that grieoes not and that neter hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1911 - 786 pages
...arts of to-day were once woman's peculiar province." Markham pictures the man-drudge — " Bowed with the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe, and...his face And on his back the burden of the world." But long before the centuries were counted, or the prehi toric ages set in their order, when even the... | |
 | 1899 - 650 pages
...lords and rulers in all "God mado mau in His own imaKo. ID the imaKc of God made He him." — Genesis. BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and Touch"?; Yga!!T with immortality: despair. Give back the upward looking and A thing that grieves not... | |
 | 1899 - 750 pages
...entire poem is here published for reference. JOHN B. HORNER, A. M . UTT. D. " THE MAN WITH THE HOE." Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. v^ho made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves mt and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | 1899 - 674 pages
...for reference. JOHN B. HORNER. AM, LITT. D. "THE MAN WITH THE HOE." Bowed by the weight of oenturies he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. vv'ho made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves nat and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pages
...aristocracy of wealth; when class distinction becomes a factor in American politics; when " Mau leaus upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness...his face And on his back the burden of the world," Then, and not till then, will manual training in the arts and trades be supported in this country by... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1899 - 154 pages
...image of God made He him. — Genesis. Bowed by the weight of centuries. he leans Upon his hoe;and gazes on the ground, - — The emptiness of ages in...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. I Who made him dead to rapture and despair, c A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1900 - 148 pages
...World-Famous Painting God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him.—- Genesis. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, * \l:"\\.\:-'- ttf The Man with the Hoe A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned,... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1900 - 196 pages
...is the poem, which was suggested by Millet's famous picture of a French peasant with the hoe : — Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despiir, A thing that grieves not * and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?... | |
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BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. 
