The Man With the Hoe

poem by Edwin Markham

Created: 1898
Published: 1899
Subject: work
Form: poem
Country of origin: United States
Language: English
Rights: public domain
first line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
has edition or translation: The Man with the Hoe, The Man with the Hoe, The Man with the Hoe
instance of: literary work
last line: After the silence of the centuries?
title: The Man With the Hoe

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"The Man with the Hoe", in The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems (1899) "The Man with the Hoe", in The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems (1900) (with illustrations by Howard Pyle). "The Man With the Hoe", in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904), edited by Mary Elizabeth Burt
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"The Man with the Hoe" is an 1898 poem by the American poet Edwin Markham, inspired by Jean-François Millet's 1860-1862 painting L'homme à la houe, a painting interpreted as a socialist protest about the peasant's plight.

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