 | 1905 - 316 pagini
...indifference characterizes the race. "Bowed by the weight of centuries, » « • »•»•••»• The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. «*»*»*•* Sso have l seen on Shafta's top, a pine Stand silent on a cliff, Strlpt of Its glory... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1906 - 562 pagini
...subject Edwin Markham, later, wrote his celebrated lines, beginning: "Bowed by the weight of centuries ho leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness...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... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pagini
...Tristram Shandy, II, xii Hoe, — Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and ga2es on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world, EDWIN MARKHAM, The Man With the Hoe, st, 1 1This poem has been sometimes ascribed to others, Whallcy... | |
 | Arthur Judson Brown - 1907 - 424 pagini
...abject fear of evil spirits, I felt that in China is seen in literal truth " 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. " What gulfs between him and the seraphim, Slave of the wheel of labour, what to him Are Plato and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
