 | 1908 - 1086 pages
...digs i none too fat living out of the soil : 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. He rears a large family and is taught that herein he is doing his chief duty to the French-Canadian... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1901 - 604 pages
...to be great in the eyes of the world man must be a poet, orator, statesman, or general. Less of: ' 'Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground , A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox." There will... | |
 | 1899 - 978 pages
...with the Hoe By Edwin Markham God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe...made him dead to rapture and despair, A. thing that grieoes not and that neter hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down... | |
 | Medicine - 1899 - 552 pages
...By EDWIN MARKHAM. " God made man in His own image. in the image of God made lie him."— Gent sit. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans "Upon his...the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw 'i Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - History - 1911 - 786 pages
...arts of to-day were once woman's peculiar province." Markham pictures the man-drudge — " Bowed with the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe, and...his face And on his back the burden of the world." But long before the centuries were counted, or the prehi toric ages set in their order, when even the... | |
 | Self-culture - 1900 - 728 pages
...environment that « bowed him by the weight of centuries,* put "the emptiness of ages in his face," (< made him dead to rapture and despair » — •A thing...never hopes. Stolid and stunned, a brother to the or.1 With clearer notions as to the poet's conception of the toiler-figure in the painting, and remembering... | |
 | Literature - 1908 - 860 pages
...a man who digs a uoue too fat living out of the soil: Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans k Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in hi3 face, And on his back the burden of the world. He rears a large fnmily and is taught that herein... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1900 - 594 pages
...God made man in His own image, In the image of God created He Aim.— GENESIS. Bowed by the weight or centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his lace, And on his hack the burden of the worH. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that... | |
 | Hygiene - 1899 - 650 pages
...lords and rulers in all "God mado mau in His own imaKo. ID the imaKc of God made He him." — Genesis. BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and Touch"?; Yga!!T with immortality: despair. Give back the upward looking and A thing that grieves not... | |
 | Oregon - 1899 - 750 pages
...entire poem is here published for reference. JOHN B. HORNER, A. M . UTT. D. " 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. v^ho made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves mt and that never hopes, Stolid and... | |
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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. 
