Poetry Codex

American

Edwin Markham

1852–1940

Edwin Markham (1852–1940) was an American poet, born in Oregon City, Oregon, and raised in California, who later taught and lived in New York.

“The Man with the Hoe” (1899), written after seeing Millet’s painting, made him famous as a poet of social protest.

Poems (132)

  1. Outwitted
  2. The Man with the Hoe
  3. Preparedness
  4. Lincoln, The Man of the People
  5. The Invisible Bride
  6. The Joy of the Hills
  7. A Look into the Gulf
  8. Brotherhood
  9. Song of the Followers of Pan
  10. Little Brothers of the Ground
  11. Wail of the Wandering Dead
  12. A Prayer
  13. The Poet
  14. The Whirlwind Road
  15. The Desire of Nations
  16. The Elf Child
  17. The Goblin Laugh
  18. Poetry
  19. A Meeting
  20. Infinite Depths
  21. A Leaf from the Devil’s Jest-Book
  22. The Paymaster
  23. The Last Furrow
  24. In the Storm
  25. After Reading Shakspere
  26. The Hidden Valley
  27. The Poets
  28. Love’s Vigil
  29. Two at a Fireside
  30. The Butterfly
  31. To William Watson
  32. Keats A-Dying
  33. Man
  34. The Cricket
  35. In High Sierras
  36. The Wharf of Dreams
  37. To Louise Michel
  38. Shepherd Boy and Nereid
  39. A Song at the Start
  40. My Comrade
  41. A Lyric of the Dawn
  42. Joy of the Morning
  43. Youth and Time
  44. A Satyr Song
  45. A Cry in the Night
  46. Fays
  47. In Death Valley
  48. At Dawn
  49. “Follow Me”
  50. In Poppy Fields
  51. The Valley
  52. The Climb of Life
  53. The Tragedy
  54. Divine Vision
  55. Midsummer Noon
  56. One Life, One Law
  57. Griefs
  58. An Old Road
  59. The New-Comers
  60. Music
  61. Fay Song
  62. The Old Earth
  63. Divine Adventure
  64. Song Made Flesh
  65. To High-born Poets
  66. The Toilers
  67. On the Gulf of Night
  68. A Harvest Song
  69. Two Taverns
  70. The Man under the Stone
  71. Song to the Divine Mother
  72. The Flying Mist
  73. From the Hand of a Child
  74. At the Meeting of Seven Valleys
  75. The Rock-Breaker
  76. These Songs Will Perish
  77. In a Corn-field
  78. The Sower
  79. At Little Virgil’s Window
  80. The Muse of Brotherhood
  81. A Blossoming Bough
  82. Kyka
  83. A Mendocino Memory
  84. The Witness of the Dust
  85. The Wall Street Pit
  86. A Creed
  87. The Mighty Hundred Years
  88. Which Was Dream?
  89. Our Deathless Dead
  90. The Builders
  91. The Angelus
  92. The Suicide
  93. The Ascension
  94. All-Men’s Inn
  95. The Field Fraternity
  96. The Errand Imperious
  97. Love’s To-Morrow
  98. The Leader of the People
  99. Art
  100. On Seeing Vedder’s “Pleiades”
  101. The Muse of Labor
  102. Even Scales
  103. Dreyfus
  104. Memory of Good Deeds
  105. The New Century
  106. The Need of the Hour
  107. The Lizard
  108. The Humming Bird
  109. The Round-Up
  110. The World-Purpose
  111. To Young America
  112. The Brown o’ the Year
  113. Wind of the Fall
  114. The Free Press
  115. A Bargain
  116. “Inasmuch....”
  117. “The Father’s Business”
  118. A Guard of the Sepulchre
  119. The Song of the Shepherds
  120. The Prince of Whim
  121. The Plowman
  122. Song’s Eternity
  123. The God of Song and Mirth
  124. St. Elizabeth of Hungary
  125. The Joy-Maker
  126. The Face of Life
  127. The Story of Bacchus
  128. Lost Lands
  129. Poet-Lore
  130. The Hindered Guest
  131. Supplication
  132. Song of the Fay

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