 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...  Representative American Poetry - Pagina 117editat de - 1919 - 158 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1899 - 430 pagini
...WITH THE HOE. [MILLET'S WORLD-FAMOUS PAINTING.] Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in...this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? Whose breath blew out the light within his brain? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and... | |
 | 1908 - 1086 pagini
...digs i none too fat living out of the soil : 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. He rears a large family and is taught that herein he is doing his chief duty to the French-Canadian... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1901 - 604 pagini
...general. Less of: ' 'Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground , A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox." There will be more of the teaching: ' 'God made man in His own image; In the image of God made he him."... | |
 | 1899 - 978 pagini
...his own image, in the image of God created he him. by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in...made him dead to rapture and despair, A. thing that grieoes not and that neter hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down... | |
 | 1899 - 552 pagini
...the image of God made lie him."— Gent sit. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans "Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground. The emptiness of ages in...the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw 'i Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1911 - 786 pagini
...province." Markham pictures the man-drudge — " Bowed with 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." But long before the centuries were counted, or the prehi toric ages set in their order, when even the... | |
 | 1914 - 528 pagini
...We suggest Markham's poem to the eugenists: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground. The emptiness of ages in...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?" 1f Industrial oppression and man's selfishness! The few have been living high at the expense of the... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pagini
...environment that « bowed him by the weight of centuries,* put "the emptiness of ages in his face," (< made him dead to rapture and despair » — •A thing...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... | |
 | National Grange - 1897 - 814 pagini
...his now famous poem, "The Man with the Hoe"; "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars... | |
 | 1900 - 554 pagini
...have demonstrated." 'The Man With The Hoe." Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in...brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? Whose breath blew out the light within his brain ? Is this the thing the Lord God made and... | |
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