| E. C. Potter - 1900 - 70 pagini
...— He'll make ye new! I don't know what he does it with, But yet it's true I The 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. Before him yawns the bunker's dreaded deeps, The sand as by a typhoon whirled and tossed; And in a... | |
| National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session - 1901 - 520 pagini
...which in some measure fulfils Edwin Markham's vision of " The Man with the Hoe" : — " Bowed with the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe, and...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." Work alone can never be enough. There must be some result and progress to redeem life from utter barrenness.... | |
| Edwin Emerson - 1902 - 752 pagini
...Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans "The M»D Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, with tbe The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grievea not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down... | |
| Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1901 - 352 pagini
...Culture must go hand in hand with manual labor. "The man with the hoe," as depicted by Markham, "with the emptiness of ages in his face and on his back the burdens of the world," will soon be — God speed the time — a lost and unknown quantity. To all... | |
| John B. Horner - 1902 - 348 pagini
...more than to cause the world to pause and consider these four linea written of the servile laborer: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. People of all nationalities clearly see in these words the man with a hoe as painted by Millet and... | |
| Mrs. Colonna Murray Dallin - 1902 - 314 pagini
...Man with a Hoe, Edwin Markham wrote his remarkable poem with the same title, beginning thus : — " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." The Q-leaners is most beautiful in tone and in harmony of color. Three poor women, in the heat of the... | |
| Robert Randall McLeod - 1903 - 780 pagini
...moved to immortal verse the muse of Markham, in which he called the world to note this figure as " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." The poet with the license of his craft overdrew the wretchedness of the class, here and there, but... | |
| George Edwin McNeill - 1903 - 184 pagini
...and power, Is this the picture you would have us paint ? A man crushed down to level of the beast, "The emptiness of ages in his face" And on his back the burdens of the world ? Or man redeemed by Christ's uplifting power ? Choose ye this day, — for God... | |
| 1904 - 544 pagini
...photograph by the. Berlin Photographic Co., after a painting by Ed. Grittzner. THE MAN WITH THE HOB 393 " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." From an etching by Bracqurmond after the painting by Jean Franyois Millet. JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER... | |
| Augustus White Long - 1905 - 374 pagini
...THE PAINTING BY MILLET 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...the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, j A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened... | |
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