Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Trials of Ownership | "The title to the land's a piece of paper" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 41. |
| We All Bear the Mark | "The mark of Cain is hard to spot" | Rendezvous 2 (Winter 1967) 22. |
| Wren in the Vervain | "Sprung from the sacred verbena family" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 14. |
| A Way to Measure | "How stupid to try to measure" | Cottonwood Review (1968) unpaged. |
| After Years Apart | "The town moved on its streets" | Quartet 3 (Summer 1968) 5. |
| End of April | "A grey sky roofs the morning" | Yankee Magazine (April 1968) 182. |
| Fear of Renewal | "Snow rotted at the sun's touch," | Chicago Tribune Magazine (1 Dec. 1968) 16. |
| Fourth of July at Aspen | "The color-striped day" | South Dakota Review 6 (Spring 1968) 50. |
| Games Are Never Free | "The city park still draws children" | Iowa Arts Council Newsletter 1 (June 1968) 1. |
| Giant Fear | "The day overwhelmed him with its size," | Cloud Marauder (Sept. 1968). |
| Let's Go Inside | "The furrowed field sleeps" | Sou'wester Literary Quarterly (1968) 24. |
| Sadness Weeps | "In my day hate clouds skies" | America (5 Oct. 1968) 294. |
| Saturday Morning | "This morning wrapped in my indolence" | The Smith 145. |
| Spring Fever | "Sun touched I sit on a" | Cottonwood Review 1968. |
| Spring Rain | "An early frost last fall" | Ladies Home Journal (April 1968) 89. |
| The Call | "The call burst into the room" | Cardinal Poetry Quarterly 4 (Fall 1968) 7. |
| The Oldest Season | "The eye's doors blown open" | America (20 Jan. 1968) 85. |
| The Rescue | "She piled harsh weeds under the wheel," | America (30 March 1968) 414. |
| The Strongest Magic | "Anger pens me in a sty" | Trace (1968) 254. |
| The Test | "This guy walking down the street" | Wormwood Review 8 (1968) 12. |
| Warm-Eyed Memory | "While I wait for my next student" | Sou'wester Literary Quarterly (1968) 24. |
| A Green Voice | "Whatever cold tones" | Midwest Quarterly (April 1969) 274. |
| Bluejay and I | "The bluejay perches on the" | Spectrum, the Richmond Tri-Annual Review 5 (Winter 1969-1970) 25. |
| Cry Shame | "Stones outlast weather," | America (1Nov. 1969) 393. |
| Destruction | "The barn stood for shelter" | The Denver Quarterly 4 (Spring 1969) 85. |