 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...  The Man with the Hoe: And Other Poems - Pagina 2de Edwin Markham - 1900 - 114 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1899 - 430 pagini
...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 gave...this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape... | |
 | 1913 - 532 pagini
...presumably authority for the substitution, in a passage from Markham's fine poem on Millet's Angelus, of ' Is this the Dream He dreamed Who shaped the suns, And marked their ways upon the unknown deep ' for the familiar ' And pillared the blue firmament with light.' Professor Urwick's book... | |
 | 1899 - 552 pagini
...Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ? To love and to be loved ; to propagate And feel the passion of Eternity ? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light ? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no... | |
 | 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...this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf There is no shape... | |
 | 1900 - 554 pagini
...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 gave...this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light ? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no... | |
 | 1900 - 594 pagini
...dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passions of Eternity ? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firnianent with light ? Down all the l trijl.rh of hell to Us last gulf There is... | |
 | 1899 - 480 pagini
...loosened and let down this brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow ? Whose brealh blew out the light within this brain ? Is this the...this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light ? Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf There is no... | |
 | 1899 - 828 pagini
...brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within his brain ? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave...this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light ? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no... | |
 | 1899 - 650 pagini
...up this shape; the light; Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies, Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have...this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf woes? O masters,... | |
 | 1899 - 806 pagini
...From " The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems." The Doubleday & McClure Co., N<-» York. 15 THE ARENA. Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave To have...this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And pillared the blue firmament with light? Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape... | |
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