 | 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... | |
 | Minnesota State Horticultural Society - 1899 - 552 pages
...the Hoe," and realize how large a share of agriculturists it truly represents, we ask with Markham: "Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing...never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?" It is not race nor soil which has "shaped him to what he is," for we find such among all races and... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1899 - 238 pages
...have bowed the back, and dulled the brain, and darkened the heart of "the Man with the Hoe," " And made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that...never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox," 1 — these things have put a new and dreadful emphasis upon the exceeding sinfulness of sin. It does... | |
 | 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... | |
 | California. Commission in Lunacy, 1897- - 1899 - 1352 pages
...staring eyes meet one's gaze on every hand. Helpless and immedicable they suggest some gruesome shape, dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes." Add to these the tubercular and criminal cases, and the hapless picture is complete. And, constructed... | |
 | David Starr Jordan, Joshua Harrison Stallard - 1899 - 156 pages
...Like the ox he feeds and sleeps only to be able to renew his labors. Stolid and stunned he becomes dead to rapture and despair, a thing that grieves not, and that never hopes. From all the stretch of hell to its last gulf, there is no shape more terrible, more tongued with censure... | |
 | 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?... | |
 | E. C. Potter - 1900 - 70 pages
...— He'll make ye new! I don't know what he does it with, But yet it's true I 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. Before him yawns the bunker's dreaded deeps, The sand as by a typhoon whirled and tossed; And in a... | |
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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. 
