The Man with the Hoe

AND OTHER POEMS By EDWIN MARKHAM NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE COMPANY 1899

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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.

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Oakland, California.

The Contents

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The Man with the Hoe

Written after seeing Millet’s World-Famous Painting

The Desire of Nations

And the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The ever-lasting Father, The Prince of Peace.—Isaiah.

To William Watson

After reading “The Purple East.”

These Songs Will Perish

FOOTNOTE:

[A] This song should be read in the light of the deep and comforting truth that the Divine Feminine as well as the Divine Masculine Principle is in God—that he is Father-Mother, Two-in-One. It follows from this truth that the dignity of womanhood is grounded in the Divine Nature itself. The fact that the Deity is Man-Woman was known to the ancient poets and sages, and was grafted into the nobler religions of mankind. The idea is implied in the doctrine of the Divine Father, taught by our Lord in the Gospels; and it is declared in the first chapter of Genesis in the words: “God said, ‘Let Us make men in Our image, after Our likeness.’ ... So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”