Edwin Markham Home Poems Poets Edwin Markham Poems The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, A Prayer by Edwin Markham Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; The Humming Bird by Edwin Markham Tell me, O Rose, what thing it is That now appears, now vanishes? The Tragedy by Edwin Markham Oh, the fret of the brain, And the wounds and the worry; Keats A-Dying by Edwin Markham Often of that Last Hour I lie and think; I see thee, Keats, nearing the Deathway dim—