Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.

| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| The Flower | "The afternoon bent over" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 15. |
| The Maid who Served an Ogre | "She washed the dishes, cleaned the sink," | Periodical of Art in Nebraska (Fall 1976) 11. |
| The Snapshot | "There we four sit, quick perched as sparrows on a wire," | Poetry Now 3 (1976) 71. |
| The Wall | "A door builds a strange wall" | Kansas Quarterly 8.3/4 (Summer-Autumn 1976) 102. |
| Two Men | "The stiff man scrubs his hands," | Poetry Now (Jan. 1976) 24. |
| Veteran's Day | "How thankful they should be," | Des Moines Register (11 Nov. 1976) 20a. |
| Wonder of Hummingbirds | "Glass cells of red syrup hang" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 68. |
| Alive and Well | "Don't fill the kitchen pot" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 61. |
| Born Each Morning | "What a shocking way to enter the world," | Colorado Quarterly 26 (Summer 1977) 9. |
| Calendar's Mischief | "A day of shock," | America (24 Sept. 1977) 16. |