The Man with the Hoe
The Man with the Hoe
and Other Poems
By
DECORATED BY HOWARD PYLE
New York
Doubleday & McClure Co.
1900
Copyright, 1899, 1900,
by
Edwin Markham
THE DEVINNE PRESS.
Prefatory Note
Many of these poems have appeared in Scribner's, The Century, The Atlantic, and the San Francisco Examiner, and my thanks are due them for permission to republish.
Edwin Markham.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Contents
A Look into the Gulf, 4
Brotherhood, 6
Song of the Followers of Pan, 7
Little Brothers of the Ground, 8
Wail of the Wandering Dead, 10
A Prayer, 13
The Poet, 15
The Whirlwind Road, 17
The Desire of Nations, 18
The Elf Child, 23
The Goblin Laugh, 24
Poetry, 25
A Meeting, 26
Infinite Depths, 27
A Leaf from the Devil's Jest-Book, 28
The Paymaster, 30
The Last Furrow, 31
In the Storm, 33
After Reading Shakspere, 34
The Hidden Valley, 36
The Poets, 37
Love's Vigil, 38
Two at a Fireside, 40
The Butterfly, 41
To William Watson, 42
Keats A-Dying, 43
Man, 44
The Cricket, 45
In High Sierras, 46
The Wharf of Dreams, 47
To Louise Michel, 49
Shepherd Boy and Nereid, 50
A Song at the Start, 52
My Comrade, 54
A Lyric of the Dawn, 55
Joy of the Morning, 62
Youth and Time, 63
A Satyr Song, 65
A Cry in the Night, 66
Fays, 67
In Death Valley, 68
At Dawn, 69
"Follow Me," 70
In Poppy Fields, 71
The Joy of the Hills, 72
The Invisible Bride, 74
The Valley, 76
The Climb of Life, 77
The Tragedy, 79
Divine Vision, 80
Midsummer Noon, 81
One Life, One Law, 82
Griefs, 83
An Old Road, 84
The New Comers, 85
Music, 86
Fay Song, 87
The Old Earth, 88
Divine Adventure, 89
Song Made Flesh, 91
To High-born Poets, 92
The Toilers, 94
On the Gulf of Night, 96
A Harvest Song, 98
Two Taverns, 100
The Man under the Stone, 101
Song to the Divine Mother, 103
The Flying Mist, 107
From the Hand of a Child, 109
At the Meeting of Seven Valleys, 111
The Rock-Breaker, 112
These Songs Will Perish, 113
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