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Edwin Markham Biography

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.

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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Fellows, Levels, Reciprocities, Rights, Two, Wherever

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

Come, Deeper, Grief, Heart, Know, Space

I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Loneliness, Make, Men, Tragic, Winning, Yes

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

Glory, Heart, Hills, Oft, Sky, White

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Earth, Feet, Green, Life, Literature, Thing

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

Flout, Life, Love, Outwitted, Peace, Wit

The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

Belong, Generations, Giving, Human, Rise, Silence

Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!

Dream, Ivory, Men, Stuff, Unfulfilled

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Hammer, Hammers, Inspirational, Preparation, Prepared, Strike

Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.

Creed, Enough, Law, Love, Roads, Truth

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Literature, Rust, Wear

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Adversity, Encouraging, Kindness, Shake, Soul, Victory

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Age, Centuries, Face, Hoe, World

Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.

Death, Grieving, Heart, Joy, Sorrows, Stretch

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.

Cities, Doe, Men, Plan, Vain, World

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!

Dream, Inspirational, Life, Stream, True

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

Build, Cities, City, Firsts, Man, Men

The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Brotherhood, Crowning, Good, Good Life, Star, Stars

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

Battle, Broken, Face, Fighting, Friend, Soldier

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Clever, Ideals, Men, Poet, Poetic, Unworldly

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