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. 1861-1906 - Pagina 1014de Edwin Emerson - 1906Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| 1899 - 428 pagini
...1899. No. 5 THE MAN 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1899 - 978 pagini
...God created man in 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...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A. thing that grieoes not and that neter hopes, Stolid and... | |
| 1899 - 552 pagini
...His own image. in 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...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... | |
| 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
...woman's peculiar province." Markham pictures the man-drudge — " Bowed with the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe, and (gazes on the ground; The...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
...geography and time. I 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...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... | |
| National Grange - 1897 - 802 pagini
...Edward Markham in 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...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... | |
| 1900 - 554 pagini
...of these toxines I 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...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... | |
| 1908 - 860 pagini
...a man who digs a uoue too fat living out of the soil: Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans k Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in hi3 face, And on his back the burden of the world. He rears a large fnmily and is taught that herein... | |
| 1900 - 594 pagini
...His own image, In the image of God created He Aim.— GENESIS. Bowed by the weight or centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his lace, And on his hack the burden of the worH. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that... | |
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