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... The Medical World - Página 3451899Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1899 - 430 páginas
...g. XXIX. og MADISON, WIS., MAY, 1899. No. 5 THE MAN WITH THE HOE. [MILLET'S WORLD-FAMOUS PAINTING.] Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? Whose breath blew out the light within his brain? Is... | |
| 1908 - 1086 páginas
...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 - 1901 - 604 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1911 - 786 páginas
...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... | |
| 1914 - 528 páginas
...driver and footman." T Morality is geography and time. I We suggest Markham's poem to the eugenists: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...the Ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?"... | |
| 1900 - 728 páginas
...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... | |
| 1900 - 554 páginas
...uric acid. That thialion will get rid of these toxines I have demonstrated." 'The Man With The Hoe." Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...the ox ? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back his brow? Whose breath blew out the light within his brain ?... | |
| National Grange - 1897 - 814 páginas
...industrial and social spheres as described by Edward Markham in his now famous poem, "The Man with the Hoe"; "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?... | |
| 1908 - 860 páginas
...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... | |
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