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Famous Chore Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Chore poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous chore poems. These examples illustrate what a famous chore poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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I'll dig at my lettuce, and sweep my floor,
Forever, forever I'm done with woe.
And happen I'll whistle about my chore,
"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."



L'ENVOI

Oh, beggar or prince, no more, no more!
Be off and away with your strut and show.
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core:
Scratch a lover, and find a foe!...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy



...ue,
 Or green or white.

Jest squat serenely in the sun
 Wi' brush an' paint,
An' gay them pickets one by one,
 --A chore! It ain't.
The job is joy. Although I'm slow
 I save expense:
So folks, let me before I go,
 Smart that ol' fence.

Them pickets with my hands I made,
 When young and spry;
I coloured them a gleeful shade
 To glad the eye.
So now as chirpy as a boy,
 'Ere I go hence,
Once more let me jest bright to joy
 Our picket fence....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...changed but the hives of bees. 

Before them, under the garden wall, 
Forward and back, 
Went drearily singing the chore-girl small, 
Draping each hive with a shred of black. 

Trembling, I listened: the summer sun 
Had the chill of snow; 
For I knew she was telling the bees of one 
Gone on the journey we all must go! 

Then I said to myself, "My Mary weeps 
For the dead to-day: 
Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps 
The fret and the pain of his age away." 

But ...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
...hine;
The sun and moon and all that is
Were His unique design.
The Cosmos is his concrete thought,
The Universe his chore..."
Said Son: "I understand, but what
 Did He before?"

I gave it up; I could not cope
With his enquiring prod,
And must admit I've little hope
Of understanding God.
Indeed I find more to my mind
The monkey in the tree
In whose crude form Nature defined
 Our human destiny.

Thought I: "Why search for Deity
In visionary shape?
'Twoul...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...f my fane--no soul to wis-- 
And cross the patterned floor 
To the rood-screen 
That stands between 
The nave and inner chore. 

The rich red windows dim the moon, 
But little light need I; 
I mount the prie-dieu, lately hewn 
From woods of rarest dye; 
Then from below 
My garment, so, 
I draw this cord, and tie 

One end thereof around the beam 
Midway 'twixt Cross and truss: 
I noose the nethermost extreme, 
And in ten seconds thus 
I journey hence-- 
To that land whenc...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas



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