# The man with the hoe, and other poems

Author: Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67012

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+man+with+the+hoe%2C+and+other+poems+Markham&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 and stunned, a brother to 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?

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-man-with-the-hoe-and-other-poems-67012/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-man-with-the-hoe-and-other-poems-67012/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-man-with-the-hoe-and-other-poems-67012/chapters/3/index.md)