 | 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,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Marks - 1913 - 366 pagini
...sympathetic touch has limned the hard, harsh lot of the agricultural labourer : Bowed by the weight of the centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. 280110 However, by a stroke of circumstance, surely as providential as it is auspicious, there has... | |
 | 1913 - 974 pagini
...for their 'services,' and at the end little is left for his own family. As he stands near the furrow, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world, he is the symbol of India in her helplessness and despair. Mute in his anguish, half-unconscious of... | |
 | 1914 - 542 pagini
...Read Edwin Markham's poem on the "Man with the Hoe.'* It typifies the peasant of this period folly. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...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,... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pagini
...EDWIN MARKHAM. 1852The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood. Brotherhood. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. HENRY VAN DYKE. 1852Men have dulled their eyes with sin, And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt,... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 330 pagini
...ago." From this one can readily see that Millet did not think of his toiler as described by Markham: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. When in 1850 " The Sower," now in the Metropolitan Art Museum, was first exhibited in the Salon, Theophile... | |
 | Arthur Judson Brown - 1915 - 318 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." "In certain occupations in China men are literally killing themselves by their exertions. The term... | |
 | Panchanandas Mukherji - 1917 - 500 pagini
...Native States. And what is the general condition of the common agriculturist in India ? — well — Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world ! The one universal truth in regard to agriculturists all over the world is that they must borrow.... | |
 | Benjamin Ives Gilman - 1918 - 472 pagini
...Millet's picture of the "Man with the Hoe" he has eloquently set forth in the poem bearing that title: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. "Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? What the long reaches... | |
 | G.A. Natesan - 1918 - 1034 pagini
...agricultural labourer of India — landless and untaught Bowed with the weight of centuries, he leans Upt>n his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of...his face, And on his back the burden of the world ? These are only a few examples of Sir William's vigilant and sturdy championship of the cause of India.... | |
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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. 
