 | Henry Clay Vedder - 1912 - 568 pagini
...given a true, if terrible, picture of incarnate materialism in his poem, "The Man with the Hoe" : — 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 ? ******* Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion... | |
 | 1912 - 440 pagini
...MILLET'S WORLD-FAMOUS PAINTING God made man in His own image, in the image of God made 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... | |
 | Augusta Choate, Gertrude Hartman - 1912 - 174 pagini
...daughter. 34 49. Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet Freedom's song. 50. Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. 5.1. Behold her single in the field. Yon solitary Highland lass. 52. Three weeks we westward bore.... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1912 - 556 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... | |
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - 1912 - 358 pagini
...peculiar province." Markham pictures the man-drudge— " Bowed with the weight of centuries he lean* Upon his hoe, and gazes on the ground; The emptiness...his face And on his back the burden of the world." 4 Otis T. Maaon, Woman's Share in Primitive Cuttmrt. But long before the centuries were counted, or... | |
 | 1914 - 534 pagini
...It typifies the peasant of this period fully. 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. EC Jones's poem, "The Song of the Lower Classes," may be used at this stage. And whenever he lacks,... | |
 | Joseph Gaston - 1912 - 1078 pagini
...Berkeley. His most remarkable poem is "The Man with a Hoe" — a part of which are the following lines : Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes at the ground The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1913 - 237 pagini
...To-day! Helen Gray Cone. THE MAN WITH THE HOE Written after seeing Millet's world-famous painting) 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... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1913 - 386 pagini
...went on day by day, and conquered. THE MAN WITH THE HOE Written after seeing Millet's famous painting 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... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1913 - 72 pagini
...of you may remember Edwin Markham's poem, "The Man with the Hoe," based on Millet's famous picture. 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? It is a world-old tale, this of the trembling heart, the failing eyes,... | |
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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... 
