Best poems about — Storgy
Work.
Three poems, ranked.
3 of the finest public-domain poems about work, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
The leading three
01
Mowing
Robert Frost · 1913
“A farmer mows a field by himself, taking in the soft sound of his scythe cutting through the grass, and wonders what it might be "saying." The poem suggests tha…”
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02
Two Tramps in Mud Time
Robert Frost
“A speaker is chopping wood for enjoyment on a muddy spring day when two out-of-work lumberjacks arrive, silently challenging him to give up the task. The poem u…”
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03
The Ruined Maid
Thomas Hardy
“Two women run into each other in the city: one is still a poor farm girl, the other has clearly come up in the world — nice clothes, soft hands, polished speech…”
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