Who is Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham; April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940) was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.

Life

Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved with his mother to Lagoon Valley in Solano County, California. He obtained a teaching certificate in 1870 from Pacific Methodist College in Vacaville. Markham then attended San Jose Normal School (now San Jose State University) as a member of the first graduating class (1872), and wrote the poem The Man with the Hoe. The house in which he wrote the poem was preserved and moved to the city's History Park, and now serves as a poetry center. He went by "...
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Edwin Markham Poems

  • The Man With The Hoe
    (Written after seeing Millet's world-famous painting)


    Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans...
  • The Joy Of The Hills
    I ride on the mountain tops, I ride;
    I have found my life and am satisfied.
    Onward I ride in the blowing oats,
    Checking the field-lark's rippling notes-...
  • The Invisible Bride
    The low-voiced girls that go
    In gardens of the Lord,
    Like flowers of the field they grow
    In sisterly accord....
  • Lincoln, The Man Of The People
    When the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour
    Greatening and darkening as it hurried on,
    She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down
    To make a man to meet the mortal need....
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_wisehour_: "we have committed the golden rule to memory; let us now commit it to life." edwin markham
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Gisela92099920: “ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!” — edwin markham, poet
Motivappbot: we have committed the golden rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. [edwin markham]
Revsantoslyons: i learned edwin markham, a universalist who wrote one of my favorite short poems and was a poet laureate of oregon in the 1920s, was also a stauch supporter of eugenics.
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