Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Melancholy at Night | "Each evening at bedtime" | Poetry View (27 July 1980) 9. |
| Something is Given | "Something is given" | Stone Country 7.1 (Feb. 1980) 17. |
| Sooner or Later | "My roots search for water" | Yankee Magazine 44.8 (Aug. 1980) 173. |
| Stepchild of Nature | "Open morning's door and listen" | NRTA Journal 31.156 (July-Aug. 1980) 6. |
| The Way the Light Shines | "The shrill singing of cicada" | Poetry Now 5.3 Issue 27 (1980) 6. |
| There Are Still Some Mysteries | "My young neighbor attended an" | Poetry Now 5.4 Issue 28 (1980) 34. |
| Weather Words | "The garden waited to be covered," | Poetry Now 5.4 Issue 28 (1980) 34. |
| A Few Good Licks | "So you said I would be the" | The Davidson Miscellany 17.1 (Spring 1981) 30. |
| A Small Matter | "The farmer knows he's no match" | Northeast 3.11 (Summer 1981) 4. |
| An Evasive Fellow | "Lust worries the" | Jump River Review 7 (March 1981) 20. |
| Anyone Can See | "Anyone with half wit can see" | Poetry Now 6.5 Issue 35 (1982) 36. |
| Bound to Happen | "At the haybarn's peak where" | New England Review (1978-1982) 111.3 (Spring 1981) 369. |
| Gift for All | "The miracles of creation" | Skylark (1981). |
| How Good is Good Enough | "He must have read whatever signs" | Poetry Now 6.4 Issue 34(1982) 37. |
| Improve the View | "Why don't you decorate" | Nebraska Review (May 1981) 14. |
| Kelly's Woods | "Kelly’s Woods—our picnic grounds" | Time Like a Furrow: Essays. Ames, IA: Iowa State Historical Department. 1981. xi-xii. |
| Liberated by Generosity | "Today was a turning point" | America 146.6 (19 Sept. 1981) 134. |
| Love is Not Earned | "A display of my skills" | Northeast 3.11 (Summer 1981) 5. |
| Mr. Norris and the Civet Cat | "We four boys liked to fish" | Maine Life (Oct.-Nov. 1981) 32. |
| Nag, Nag, Nag All Day | "The buzzing sound in my ears" | Event: Journal of Contemporary Art 10.1 (Summer 1981) 71. |
| Responsibility of Being Young | "All I knew concerned my" | Barnwood 1.3 (Spring 1981). |
| Shy Breeder | "The heifer is in heat but" | Poetry Now 6.1 (1981) 16. |
| Subscription to Salvation | "What do you know," | Wormwood Review 22.1 (1982) 38-9. |
| Survival [1] | "Lightning hit the poplar tree" | Poetry Scope 9 (August 1981) D-10. |
| The Short Run and the Long Pull | "Our fields lay side by side," | Nebraska Review (May 1981) 14. |