...Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans "Tbe Mac Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, S'" 1 ,," 16 The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down...

...power of thought are well-nigh dead within him. Here is the poet's picture of the typical peasant : " The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? " Muscular toil, prolonged...

...Culture must go hand in hand with manual labor. "The man with the hoe," as depicted by Markham, "with the emptiness of ages in his face and on his back the burdens of the world," will soon be — God speed the time — a lost and unknown quantity. To all...

...the Hoe" in America. Edwin Markham describes him after inspecting Millet's painting of him : "Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe...made him dead to rapture and despair? A thing that grieves not and never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother of the ox? Who loosened and let down that...

...to his life in an English village. Do you know Edwin Markham's poem ? It is very powerful. ' " Bowed by the weight of centuries, he leans Upon his hoe...made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Who loosened and let down...

...than to cause the world to pause and consider these four linea written of the servile laborer: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and...his face, And on his back the burden of the world. People of all nationalities clearly see in these words the man with a hoe as painted by Millet and...

...with a Hoe, Edwin Markham wrote his remarkable poem with the same title, beginning thus : — " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." The Q-leaners is most beautiful in tone and in harmony of color. Three poor women, in the heat of the...

...power of thought are well nigh dead within him. Here is the poet's picture of the typical peasant : The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Muscular toil, prolonged...

...power of thought are well nigh dead within him. Here is the poet's picture of the typical peasant : The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back...made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox ? Muscular toil, prolonged...

...to immortal verse the muse of Markham, in which he called the world to note this figure as " Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and...his face, And on his back the burden of the world." The poet with the license of his craft overdrew the wretchedness of the class, here and there, but...