Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| The Windmill | "Time I greased the windmill," | Texas Review 2.1 (Spring 1981) 94-5. |
| There is Time to Be Cheerful | "On the back steps" | Skylark 10 (1981) 65. |
| Time to Cross Over | "A black man with his family" | Slackwater Review 4.1 (1981) 29. |
| We Ought to Burst into Bloom | "This morning my wife bought me" | America 144.13 (4 April 1981) 270. |
| Winter Morning | "I enter a winter morning" | Contact 2 (Summer/Fall 1981) 22. |
| A Balance Sheet | "From my father's family I inherit" | Poet and Critic 13.2 (1982) 7. |
| After Snowfall | "Sky smooth as a country" | New Jersey Poetry Journal 1.2 (Spring 1982) 25-6. |
| Alms to the Giver | "The mail this morning made me" | The Davidson Miscellany 18.2 (Fall 1982) 15. |
| Double Talk | "The exercises we schedule" | Poetry Now 6.5 Issue 35 (1982) 36. |
| Let It Shine | "The guy who hides his light" | Wormwood Review 22.1 (1982) 38. |
| Missed Fortune | "Late for our dates," | Boston Monthly 111.11 (March 1982) 14. |
| No Advice Today, Thank You | "Why, the presumptuous bastard" | Kansas Quarterly 14.3 (Summer 1982) 128. |
| Not Really a Quarrel | "Granted we slept well and" | Poet and Critic 13.2 (1982) 5. |
| Not the Last Goodbye | "Hat askew, coat open," | Poet and Critic 13.2 (1982) 4. |
| Now Hear This | "Your Honor, she cried, I need help." | Poetry Now 6.6 Issue 36 (1982) 11. |
| Now I Hear This | "Your Honor, she cried, I need help." | |
| Only Flowers Seem Not to Die | "On our May Day anniversary" | Poetry Now 6.6 Issue 36 (1982) 11. |
| Photograph | "A photograph taken from" | The Davidson Miscellany 18.2 (Fall 1982) 14. |
| Resolution | "Strokes took off the big tree's top" | |
| Shelter under Glass | "The seventh grade came to visit" | New Letters 49.2 (Winter 1982-83). 70. |
| Sign-Directed | "I was born under the sign" | Poetry Now 6.6 Issue 36 (1982) 11. |
| Taking the Bull to Water | "The herd bull leaves his stall" | Poet and Critic 13.2 (1982) 2-3. |
| The Weed Cutter | "Earth soaked by a thunderstorm" | Poet and Critic 13.2 (1982) 6. |
| This Is the Way It Seems | "The first of the month the mail" | The English Journal 71.1 (January 1982) 69. |
| Walls | "My terrace wall dropped" | Yankee Magazine 46.9 (Sept. 1982) 194.. |