| 1913 - 974 pages
...for their 'services,' and at the end little is left for his own family. As he stands near the furrow, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world, he is the symbol of India in her helplessness and despair. Mute in his anguish, half-unconscious of... | |
| John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...EDWIN MARKHAM. 1852The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood. Brotherhood. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. HENRY VAN DYKE. 1852Men have dulled their eyes with sin, And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt,... | |
| 1914 - 542 pages
...Read Edwin Markham's poem on the "Man with the Hoe.'* It typifies the peasant of this period folly. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. EC Jones's poem, "The Song of the Lower Classes,'' may be used at this stage. And whenever he lacks,... | |
| Norman Maclean - 1914 - 330 pages
...country of the Kikuyu. But there he lies. Yesterday he was a toiler — a worker after his kind : — 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. But there the great mystery has thrown the veil... | |
| Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami - 1914 - 278 pages
...spirit of freedom upon which the great Republic is founded. He has begun to realize that he is no longer "A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox.'.' Here, in the islands of Hawaii, the East has met the West, and the aggressive, restless, nervous Occident... | |
| Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami - 1914 - 284 pages
...spirit of freedom upon which the great Republic is founded. He has begun to realize that he is no longer "A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox.V Here, in the islands of Hawaii, the East has met the West, and the aggressive, restless, nervous... | |
| Arthur Judson Brown - 1915 - 318 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." "In certain occupations in China men are literally killing themselves by their exertions. The term... | |
| Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 330 pages
...ago." From this one can readily see that Millet did not think of his toiler as described by Markham: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. When in 1850 " The Sower," now in the Metropolitan Art Museum, was first exhibited in the Salon, Theophile... | |
| Arthur Dayton Cromwell - 1915 - 392 pages
...this connection I wish that the teacher would read Markham's " Man with the Hoe," and ask herself: Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing...never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? If there be such among us. or if wo develop a country peasantry as low and degraded as that of Europe,... | |
| James P Langham - 1915 - 248 pages
...of an animal to pursue uncomplainingly the tasks of ill-requited toil, each seemingly content to be "a thing that grieves not and that never hopes, stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox." But even in their hearts are hidden, darkened and silent, ways which run inward to the God and Father... | |
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