 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.  Sketches of Great Painters - Page 29by Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1912 - 570 pages
...Program and Supported by Public Funds, by Edgar S. Martin and FA McKenzie 348 THE MAN WITH THE HOE* EDWIN MARKHAM ; Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | 1912 - 440 pages
...MILLET'S 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...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | Henry Clay Vedder - 1912 - 568 pages
...given a true, if terrible, picture of incarnate materialism in his poem, "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. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 pages
...daughter. 34 49. Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet Freedom's song. 50. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. 5.1. Behold her single in the field. Yon solitary Highland lass. 52. Three weeks we westward bore.... | |
 | 1906 - 1034 pages
...Edwin Markham's "Man with a Hoe," cursed by an absence of adequate spiritual life to inspire his toll: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1912 - 556 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... | |
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - 1912 - 358 pages
...peculiar province." Markham pictures the man-drudge— " Bowed with the weight of centuries he lean* Upon his hoe, and gazes on the ground; The emptiness...his face And on his back the burden of the world." 4 Otis T. Maaon, Woman's Share in Primitive Cuttmrt. But long before the centuries were counted, or... | |
 | 1914 - 532 pages
...It typifies the peasant of this period fully. 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. EC Jones's poem, "The Song of the Lower Classes," may be used at this stage. And whenever he lacks,... | |
 | Joseph Gaston - 1912 - 1078 pages
...Berkeley. His most remarkable poem is "The Man with a Hoe" — a part of which are the following lines : Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes at the ground The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1913 - 237 pages
...To-day! Helen Gray Cone. THE MAN WITH THE HOE Written after seeing Millet's world-famous painting) BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
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