 | 1910 - 534 pagini
...soul of my chivalry, For Little Giffin, of Tennessee. •> * The Man With the Hoe BY EDWIN MARKHAM. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...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... | |
 | GEORGE WHARTON JAMES - 1910
...MAN WITH THE HOE"» 11 God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him." — Gtntsis. Bowed by the weight of. centuries he leans Upon his...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... | |
 | Wallace Rice, Frances Rice - 1910 - 466 pagini
...painting by Millet.) God created man in His own image; in the image of God created He him. — Genesis. BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...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... | |
 | Edwin Emerson, Jr. - 1910 - 590 pagini
...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... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 pagini
...would be." THE MAN WITH THE HOE "God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him." Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...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... | |
 | 1911 - 978 pagini
...Markham's poem " The Man with the Hoe," based on Millet's famous picture: — Bowed by the weight oí centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,...and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hope?, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? It is a world-old story — this trembling heart,... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - 1911 - 752 pagini
...express what we feel, we too, are artists. Hear the poet's interpretation of Millet's "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." A remarkable pen picture, by Edwin Markham, but how inadequate to express the artist's touch. The same... | |
 | Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - 1911 - 278 pagini
...the idea of a double consciousness is absurd with these representative types. It is true that — " Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." But, surely, to bear the burden of others, one should have thought, is honourable work, and the toiling... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 1911 - 398 pagini
...union—even to the workworn threat of rising against the wicked well-to-do and taking it out of their hides. 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... | |
 | 1906 - 1034 pagini
...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...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... | |
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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... 
