 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 pages
...the dead already, — And hurrah for the next that dies ! BARTHOLOMEW BOWLING. THE MAN WITH THE HOE BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes oil the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...man's hobby-horse is as tender a part as he has about him, STERNE, Tristram Shandy, II, xii Hoe, — Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and ga2es on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world, EDWIN... | |
 | Arthur Judson Brown - 1907 - 424 pages
...abject fear of evil spirits, I felt that in China is seen in literal truth " 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. " What gulfs between him and the seraphim, Slave of the wheel of labour, what to him Are Plato and... | |
 | Stanton Coit - 1907 - 468 pages
...and redemptive power with the greatest hymns of the Church — with, let us say, the Magnificat : — Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages on his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing... | |
 | 1912 - 560 pages
...play — "This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched." It suggests community responsibility — "Who made him dead to rapture and despair? A thing that grieves not and that never hopes? " It sounds its warning — "O Masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the future reckon with... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1908 - 1130 pages
...wonder that generations of such a process prove deadening to the spirit and that a man becomes at last "A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned; a brother to the ox." Farm life, in some ways, is a hard life; but the training is invaluable. The boy on the farm cannot... | |
 | Edwin Emerson, Jr. - 1910 - 590 pages
...sold to San Francisco. On this subject Edwin Markham, later, wrote his celebrated lines, beginning: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." In Spain, as soon as the force of the victory of the counter-revolution was felt at Madrid, Loma took... | |
 | 1911 - 978 pages
...Markham's poem " The Man with the Hoe," based on Millet's famous picture: — Bowed by the weight oí centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,...and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hope?, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? It is a world-old story — this trembling heart,... | |
 | Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - 1911 - 278 pages
...the idea of a double consciousness is absurd with these representative types. It is true that — " Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." But, surely, to bear the burden of others, one should have thought, is honourable work, and the toiling... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - 1911 - 752 pages
...express what we feel, we too, are artists. Hear the poet's interpretation of Millet's "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." A remarkable pen picture, by Edwin Markham, but how inadequate to express the artist's touch. The same... | |
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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. 
