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Also known as Charles Edward Anson Markham

American poet (1854-1940)

Person · Open Library

Born
1852
Died
1940
Works
67

Top works

  • Lincoln, the man of the people
  • Poems of the Hon. Roden Noel
  • The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The man with the hoe
  • Our Israfel
  • The Britannica Library of Great American Writing - Volume II

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1852-04-23
Active to
1940-03-07

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Total plays
2

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Quotes

  • There is a destiny that makes us brothers:None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back onto our own.I care not what his temples or his creeds,One thing holds firm and fastThat into his fateful heap of days and deedsThe soul of man is cast.
  • I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
  • 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?
  • Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity?
  • Down all the stretches of Hell to its last gulf There is no shape more terrible than this — More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed — More filled with signs and portents for the soul — More fraught with menace to the universe.
  • Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop; Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. A protest that is also a prophecy.

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Edwin Markham
date of birth
1852-04-23
date of death
1940-03-07
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Charles Edwin Anson Markham
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