How Edwin Markham's wise far-reaching thought Illuminates the day and plants new seed Assisting men to corrolate, to heed The keynote principles that Jesus wrought. New trinity, his heart-felt words have brought: Bread ... beauty ... brotherhood, a forward creed; Real poetry! The light of daily need Uplifting good the creeping ages sought His genius framed the challenge, all in tune Above the voice of time in present lines: To lift the yoke of toil and grant the boon United art and literature defines; A Millet paints the man and, late or soon His shackles fall in field or street or mines. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 2. OFF ALGIERS by SARA TEASDALE WHEN ALL IS DONE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR JINNY THE JUST by MATTHEW PRIOR ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN by WILLIAM BARNES THE AUTHOR'S PARTING ADDRESS TO THE MUSE by BERNARD BARTON WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786 by SUSANNA BLAMIRE TIME'S SHADOW by MATHILDE BLIND |