 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 Arena - Página 111899Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1913 - 386 páginas
...went on day by day, and conquered. THE MAN WITH THE HOE Written after seeing Millet's famous painting BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing... | |
 | Frederick Ernest Green - 1913 - 300 páginas
...rigktt rtstrved] THE MAN WITH THE HOE God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He Mm. — GENESIS. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans...jaw ? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow f Whose breath blew out the light within this brain ? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1913 - 252 páginas
...dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, THE MAN WITH THE HOE 117 Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars... | |
 | John MacDougall - 1913 - 306 páginas
...grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down that brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? What gulfs between him and the seraphim! Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 páginas
...songs of labor. THE MAN WITH THE HOE (Written after seeing the painting by Millet) God made man in His own image, in the image of God made He him. — Genesis....Whose breath blew out the light within this brain ? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 984 páginas
...made a profound impression. It has been hailed as "the battle-cry of the next thousand years") OWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 978 páginas
..."the battle-cry of the next thousand years") "CD OWED by the weight of centuries he leans •1— ' Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1916 - 488 páginas
...stepping stones of others' dead selves, risen to higher things. He immediately demands whose work this is: Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? A moderate familiarity with the history of the human race, a little acquaintance with the appearance... | |
 | George Hamlin Fitch - 1916 - 268 páginas
...grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down that brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? * * * O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous... | |
 | National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session - 1927 - 754 páginas
...But all this was general. So I name this later poem as the one that had the greatest single effect. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his...Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? 0 masters, lords and rulers of all lands, How will the future reckon with this man? How answer his... | |
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