 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. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid...  Report - Pagina 116de Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1901Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1899 - 430 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? Whose breath... | |
 | 1899 - 552 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw 'i Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose... | |
 | 1914 - 528 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the Ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pagini
...centuries,* put "the emptiness of ages in his face," (< made him dead to rapture and despair » — •A thing that grieves not and that never hopes. Stolid and stunned, a brother to the or.1 With clearer notions as to the poet's conception of the toiler-figure in the painting, and remembering... | |
 | 1900 - 554 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? Whose... | |
 | National Grange - 1897 - 814 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1899 - 238 pagini
...brain, and darkened the heart of "the Man with the Hoe," " And made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and 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... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1899 - 154 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow ? Whose... | |
 | 1899 - 726 pagini
...ages in 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 stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow ? Whose breath... | |
 | Minnesota State Horticultural Society - 1899 - 552 pagini
...agriculturists it truly represents, we ask with Markham: "Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that 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... | |
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