 | 1901 - 114 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... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1901 - 352 pages
...Culture must go hand in hand with manual labor. "The man with the hoe," as depicted by Markham, "with the emptiness of ages in his face and on his back the burdens of the world," will soon be — God speed the time — a lost and unknown quantity. To all... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1902 - 996 pages
...Man With the Hoe" in America. Edwin Markham describes him after inspecting Millet's painting of him : "Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...rapture and despair? A thing that grieves not and never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother of the ox? Who loosened and let down that brutal jaw? Wbose... | |
 | John Punnett Peters - 1902 - 522 pages
...power of thought are well nigh dead within him. Here is the poet's picture of the typical peasant : The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Muscular toil, prolonged to exhaustion, has robbed the peasant's brain and nerves of that vital energy... | |
 | John Punnett Peters - 1902 - 520 pages
...power of thought are well nigh dead within him. Here is the poet's picture of the typical peasant : The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Muscular toil, prolonged to exhaustion, has robbed the peasant's brain and nerves of that vital energy... | |
 | John B. Horner - 1902 - 348 pages
...more than to cause the world to pause and consider these four linea written of the servile laborer: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. People of all nationalities clearly see in these words the man with a hoe as painted by Millet and... | |
 | Mrs. Colonna Murray Dallin - 1902 - 314 pages
...Man with a Hoe, Edwin Markham wrote his remarkable poem with the same title, beginning thus : — " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." The Q-leaners is most beautiful in tone and in harmony of color. Three poor women, in the heat of the... | |
 | Robert Randall McLeod - 1903 - 780 pages
...moved to immortal verse the muse of Markham, in which he called the world to note this figure as " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." The poet with the license of his craft overdrew the wretchedness of the class, here and there, but... | |
 | George Edwin McNeill - 1903 - 184 pages
...il : X АЧЭ TI -rN t . : л ': S BL "OVER POLISHED, ROCKY WAYS." — Page 2I. THE RISEN LABORER " Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face." — MARKHAM. MEN of brief authority and power, Is this the picture you would have us paint ? A man... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...low to kill the foe, But too low to touch the spoil. ERNEST CHARLES JONES. THE MAN WITH THE HOE. ' Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his hack the burden of the world." — K. MARKHAM. f-'rt'm an ttching by Kracquemond, after tht painting... | |
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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. 
