There are 278 Poems about Jobs & Working

‘Out, Out—’
By Robert Frost

The Common Women Poems, II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
By Judy Grahn

V Mon. July [1747] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

VI Mon. August [1742] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Black Man Talks of Reaping
By Arna Bontemps

A Graveyard
By Marianne Moore

A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
By R. T. Smith

A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder

A Motor
By Marvin Bell

A Poet to His Baby Son
By James Weldon Johnson

A Position at the University
By Lydia Davis

A pot poured out
By Samuel Menashe

A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski

A Way to Make a Living
By James Wright

A Youth Mowing
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost

After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok

Afterthought
By Diane Ackerman

from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky

An old story
By Bob Hicok

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

April Inventory
By W. D. Snodgrass

At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop

Atlantic Oil
By Cesare Pavese

Aubade
By Edith Sitwell

Authority
By W. S. Merwin

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wright

Barges on the Hudson
By Babette Deutsch

Beat! Beat! Drums!
By Walt Whitman

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Breughel
By Michael Collier

from Briggflatts
By Basil Bunting

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Business
By A. F. Moritz

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Carpentry
By Carl Dennis

Checklist
By Stephen Dunn

Chicago
By Paul Engle

Childhood
By Margaret Walker

Choosing A Profession
By Mary Lamb

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Confession in a Booth at the Hollow Log Lounge
By R. T. Smith

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
By Anne Winters

Day Job and Night Job
By Andrew Hudgins

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo

Dickhead
By Michael Ryan

Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky

Don't Worry if Your Job Is Small
By Anonymous

Dropping the euphemism
By Bob Hicok

Dust to Dust
By David Baker

Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
By Kevin Young

Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Excelsior Fashion Products, Easter
By D. Nurkse

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Factory
By Charles Simic

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Filling Station
By Elizabeth Bishop

First Glance
By Susan Hutton

First Job
By Joseph Campana

Forgotten of the Foot
By Anne Stevenson

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Georgia Dusk
By Jean Toomer

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Hard Luck
By Edgar Albert Guest

Harvest Gathering
By Phoebe Cary

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Hello, Willie Shoemaker
By Charles Bukowski

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

Homage to Buck Cline
By David Bottoms

Horses
By Wendell Berry

How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder

How Things Work
By Gary Soto

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

In the Cannery the Porpoise Soul
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Independent Contractor
By Norman Williams

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
By Alan Dugan

It's the Little Towns I Like
By Thomas Lux

It’s Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean
By June Jordan

It’s Like This
By Stephen Dobyns

Joe
By Emily Pauline Johnson

John Henry
By Anonymous

Johnson’s Cabinet Watched by Ants
By Robert Bly

Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Junk
By Richard Wilbur

Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Listen Carefully
By Philip Levine

Living
By C. D. Wright

London
By William Blake

London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Love Song: I and Thou
By Alan Dugan

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout

Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Mowing
By Robert Frost

My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse

My Father Teaches Me to Dream
By Jan Beatty

Nameless Pain
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Neighbors in October
By David Baker

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Odd
By Dannie Abse

Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes

Ode to his Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
By Warren Hastings

from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 30. The Orotava Road
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones

On the Subject of Doctors
By James Tate

Ox Cart Man
By Donald Hall

Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Peddler
By Sandra McPherson

Picasso
By E. E. Cummings

Pickers
By John Haines

Plowing through Ashes
By Walter McDonald

Poet’s work
By Lorine Niedecker

Politics
By William Meredith

Poppies on the Wheat
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander

Prayer
By Alan Dugan

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Rag Rug
By Rachel Hadas

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Rain along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Rain Gauge
By John Kinsella

Reapers
By Jean Toomer

Regarding Chainsaws
By Hayden Carruth

Remembering an Account Executive
By Alan Dugan

Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry
By Sandra McPherson

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Reuben Bright
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Riding Herd
By Walter McDonald

Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander

from Saying Grace
By Kevin Young

Self-Employed
By David Ignatow

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Shell
By Terry Wolverton

Sheriff Matt Whitlock Confesses to a Lesson in Zen after Hours
By R. T. Smith

Shirt
By Robert Pinsky

Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)
By Edward Hirsch

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
By William Shakespeare

Sorrow Home
By Margaret Walker

Stacking the Straw
By Amy Clampitt

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Summer Images
By John Clare

Sweat
By Miguel Hernández

Sweet Will
By Philip Levine

Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller

Tar
By C. K. Williams

Terms
By Philip Booth

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette

The Beggars
By Margaret Widdemer

The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

from The Bridge: The Tunnel
By Hart Crane

The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young
By William Blake

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Corner Grocery Store
By Walter McDonald

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Elements of San Joaquin
By Gary Soto

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Farm
By David Lee

The Farmer’s Soliloquy
By Robert Charles O’Hara Benjamin

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Future
By Neal Bowers

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Great Palaces of Versailles
By Rita Dove

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Loneliness of the Military Historian
By Margaret Atwood

The Mailman
By Franz Wright

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Map
By Larry Levis

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower against Gardens
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower to the Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The Newspaper
By Penina Moise

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

The Phyllis
By R. T. Smith

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Props assist the House (729)
By Emily Dickinson

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Uniform
By Marvin Bell

The West Country
By Alice Cary

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The Workforce
By James Tate

This Can’t Be
By Bruce Smith

Three Six Five Zero
By Conor O'Callaghan

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

Torque
By David Rivard

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Translator's note
By Bob Hicok

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Untitled
By Bei Dao

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Wood
By Reginald Gibbons

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

X-Ray
By Dannie Abse

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

You Can Have It
By Philip Levine

Youth
By James Wright

[His father carved umbrella handles...]
By Charles Reznikoff

[Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
By Juan Felipe Herrera