 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.  Sketches of Great Painters - Page 29by Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Education - 1899 - 430 pages
...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...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 and... | |
 | 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...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A. thing that grieoes not and that neter hopes, Stolid and... | |
 | 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...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 and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1914 - 528 pages
...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...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 and... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1900 - 554 pages
...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...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 and... | |
 | National Grange - 1897 - 814 pages
...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...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 and... | |
 | 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... | |
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