Category: Manual Labour

An action done or performed with the hands, involving physical rather than mental exertion (OED).

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Poems assigned to this category

Total poems: 58
Poem title Poet(s) Date Periodical id #
August 1823 Forget-Me-Not 15883
Death in the Kitchen Hood, Thomas 1828 Forget-Me-Not 14075
The Nuptials of the Doge of Venice with the Adriatic Sea Howard, George William Frederick 1830 The Keepsake 3106
The Political Cobbler Harrison, William Henry 1831 Forget-Me-Not 15698
Round the Hop-Bin Freeman, E. D. 1859-10-08 Once a Week 222
The Plague of Elliant. (From the Breton) 1859-10-15 Once a Week 226
An Autumn Psalm for 1860 Craik, Dinah 1860-12 Good Words 365
The Two Norse Kings. A Yorkshire Legend Thornbury, George Walter 1861-05-11 Once a Week 546
Coming Hame Craik, Dinah 1861-10 Good Words 389
Go and Come Greenwell, Dora 1862-01 Good Words 395
Pictures in the Fire Massey, Gerald 1862-04 Good Words 402
Wardie—Spring-time Smith, Alexander 1862-05 Good Words 404
Manoli. A Moldo-Wallachian Legend Call, Wathen Mark Wilks 1862-09 The Cornhill Magazine 12063
The Cilician Pirates. (Temp. Pompeii Magni) Smith, W. Frank 1863-04 The Cornhill Magazine 12072
A Missionary Cheer Massey, Gerald 1863-08 Good Words 12354
Harvest A. H. B. (poet; Good Words), Baldwin, Astley H. 1864 Good Words 1725
The Expiation of Charles V Reece, Robert (Jr.) 1864-01-16 Once a Week 553
Among the Sheaves Pares, Anne (pseudonym Evelyn Forest) 1864-09-10 Once a Week 691
April Ellis, B. Trapp 1866-04-07 Once a Week 13423
May Ellis, B. Trapp 1866-05-05 Once a Week 13434
August Goddard, Julia 1866-08-04 Once a Week 13460
Harvest E. A. S. (poet; Good Words) 1866-09-01 Good Words 1811
“Experientia Docet;” Or, the Pleasures of Farming A. C. W. (poet; Once a Week) 1866-11-10 Once a Week 13479
New Years Day Goddard, Julia 1867-01-05 Once a Week 12076
June. Dreaming Goddard, Julia 1867-06-01 Once a Week 12161
Haymakers Munby, Arthur J. 1867-07-20 Once a Week 13527
Evening-Tide I. D. F. (poet; Once a Week) 1867-08-31 Once a Week 13541
The Highland Student Shairp, John Campbell 1867-10-01 Good Words 1874
III. Promising. (A Man Speaks) Ingelow, Jean 1869-03-01 Good Words 11899
In the Harvest Field Fyvie Mayo, Isabella 1871 Good Words 2121
Harvest Song Noel, Roden 1872 Good Words 2209
III.—A Mother’s Funeral Macleod, Norman 1872 Good Words 2222
The Carpenter MacDonald, George 1872 Good Words 2142
In the Woods Jenner, Alice Hay 1873 Good Words 2441
Gleaners Smedley, Menella Bute 1875 Good Words 2546
Harvest Cooper, Katharine (also Katherine) (née Saunders) 1875 Good Words 2563
Mrs. Jones’s Lodger. A Legend of Southend Coller, Edwin 1875-01-30 Once a Week 13646
In Harvest-Time Japp, Alexander Hay 1877 Good Words 2655
Harvest Japp, Alexander Hay 1879 Good Words 2797
Thory’s Toft and Lound Lincolnshire Rector 1881 Good Words 3908
The Death of Huss Austin, Alfred 1882 Good Words 3939
“The Red, Green, and the Yellow” Robertson, James Logie (pseudonym Hugh Haliburton) 1883 Good Words 3978
The Crow and The Fox. Versified from Æsop’s Fables Bates, Clara Doty 1888-04 Atalanta 1771
The Stay-At-Home. (After Claudian) Claudian 1889-06 Atalanta 1933
Amabel at Work. Triolet Gillington, May Clarissa 1889-08 Woman’s World 676
“There once was a youthful Agnostic” 1889-10 Atalanta 1950
Olaf The Sea-King A Scandanavian Ballad Osgood, Kate Putnam 1889-12 Atalanta 1956
Sir Plume To Sacharissa: Who is Cross Maitland, Ella Fuller 1890-02 Atalanta 1968
The Mail-Cart Johnston, Henry 1891 Good Words 4115
An Autumn Dirge Blomfield, Alfred 1892 Good Words 5022
At the Ferry Richardson, Robert 1892 Good Words 5021
Goodwin Sands Canton, William 1892 Good Words 4209
The Harvest of the Sea Salmon, Arthur Leslie 1892 Good Words 4214
The Corn-Keeper Housman, Laurence 1892-10 Atalanta 2232
The Apple-Trees 1893 Good Words 15911
A Man’s Thought Cotterell, George 1894 Good Words 5056
Two Toilers Hendry, Hamish 1894 Good Words 5059
The Old Year Davies, J. H. 1894-01 Atalanta 2289