Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| The Young Old-Timer | "His hands seek each other under his overall bib" | Wallace's Farmer. 24 September 1938. p. 6. |
| Winter Solstice | "This is the final day" | Country Men (1938) 57. |
| March Mourning | "The late snow is a fungus" | Wallace's Farmer. 11 March 1939. p. 6. |
| On Relief | "Our glances met as glances meet" | Common Sense (Feb. 1939) 26. |
| Silver Maples | "Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies" | Wallace's Farmer, 22 April 1939, pp. 15. |
| Spring West of Town | "A man who lives inside my head" | Kernels (March-April 1939) 3. |
| After the Son Died | "The trees follow two sides of a square" | Poetry 56 (Aug 1940) 262. |
| Boundary Lines | "The dog has a squirrel up a tree." | American Prefaces, 6 (Autumn 1940) 43. |
| False Warning | "The meadow has lost its features and the grove" | Poetry (56 Aug. 1940) 261. |
| Meeting a Pheasant Hunter in Our Grove | "The bush’s shape has been bent by the wind" | American Prefaces 6 (Autumn 1940) 44. |
| 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. |
| Good Friday | "My neighbor plants potatoes on Good Friday" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 11. |
| Guarding the Fire | "The wind throws snow at the window" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 34. |
| Homesickness | "Marie Summers took a course in Commercial" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 28. |
| How Many Shadows Has a Man | "The dog looked into the water" | Country Men (1943) 59. |
| Logician | "Pete Everson was called four-eyed Pete" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 27. |