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

| Title | First Line | Original Citation | 
|---|---|---|
| Morning Song | "I often think of night as a wave lifting me into the morning" | Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260.  | 
              
| Quarrel | "In the angry silence" | American Prefaces 6 (Autumn 1940) 43.  | 
              
| The Same in This As Other Lands | "He bows his head against the wind" | Poetry 56 (Aug 1940) 263.  | 
              
| The Search | "Here on the hillside is a square of ground" | Wallace's Farmer 6 (April 1940) 246.  | 
              
| The Sun at Noon | "No country leads so softly to nowhere" | Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260.  | 
              
| After Corn Husking | "The last load ends the day" | University Review 9 (Winter 1942) 95.  | 
              
| The Fence Row | "A ripple of ground still show the line where" | Poetry 60 (July 1942) 201.  | 
              
| Between Snow and Stars | "The sun trips and falls headlong down the sky" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 20.  | 
              
| Choosing | "The stolid farmer took his hoe" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 18.  | 
              
| Free Man | "Hans Karen and debt were old friends until 1932" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 25.  |