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Late For The News |
Last week you said |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II |
1972 |
Depression, routine |
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Landmark and Other Poems |
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Year after Year |
By ones, twos and in groups |
A Country Man |
1993 |
routine, childhood |
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A Country Man 16. |
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Advice to Farmers |
You trimmed the wilderness to size |
Sparrow Magazine |
1961 |
farming, nature |
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Winter Morning |
I enter a winter morning |
Contact |
1981 |
isolation, winter |
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The Gift for Love |
Underbrush, grasses, weeds, |
Eidolons |
1972 |
wilderness, order |
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Shake in Vain |
Shake in vain the orchard trees |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
trees, longing |
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Planting Red Geraniums 17 |
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The Hunter |
You cannot kill the white-tailed deer |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
hunting, persistence |
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A Single Focus 69, Snake in the Strawberries 43. |
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Need For Magic |
After a lonely night and an empty day |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
loss, longing |
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Snake in the Strawberries 11. |
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Saturday Morning |
This morning wrapped in my indolence |
The Smith |
1968 |
birds, guilt |
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Textual Matters |
"Cross your legs," saith the preacher, |
Midwest Quarterly |
1972 |
religion, judgement |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 31. |
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Taking the Bull to Water |
The herd bull leaves his stall |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
animals, danger |
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The Barn |
It was like a house but larger and not so tame, |
Instructor |
1959 |
farming, imagination |
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[There's music in my heart] |
There’s music in my heart, |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
love, nature |
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Planting Red Geraniums 35-6 |
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Shaped by Names |
You must exist somewhere |
Canadian Forum |
1977 |
language, meaning |
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Snake in the Strawberries 95. |
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For God's Sake |
Why don't you clean up your place, |
Penny Poems From Midwestern University |
1965 |
garden, decay |
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Proved by Trial 19, Landmark and Other Poems 21. |
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Stranger |
Following his father's footsteps |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
retirement, alienation |
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The Sun at Noon 26, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
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The Rescue |
She piled harsh weeds under the wheel, |
America |
1968 |
fear, cooperation |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 48. |
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Claim for Damages |
"The man recovered from the bite, |
Focus |
1984 |
frustration, law |
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Try, Try Again |
When I was young the girls were quick |
Monthly magazine for the Arts of Storytelling |
1972 |
aging, sex |
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Hard Way to Learn |
A trickle of water from |
Poetry |
1979 |
farming, knowledge |
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Need for a Quick Step |
I noticed the cow in heat |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
animals, danger |
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22 |
The Farmstead |
The farmstead lies in the angle |
Apple |
1970 |
farming, home |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 22. |
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The Army |
The pavements of the mind |
Country Men |
1943 |
indoctrination, morality |
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Country Men (1943) 62, Man and His Field 37. |
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Frost |
Though nothing came that could be heard |
Poetry |
1930 |
fall, death |
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Country Men (1937) iv, (1938) 20, (1943) 30, Man and His Field 43, Landmark and Other Poems 32. |
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The Bird |
One day in the bleak month of March |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1961 |
birds, memory |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 66. |
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