Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Snake in the Strawberries | "This lovely girl dressed in lambswool thoughts" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 30. |
| Spring Barnyard | "Pigeons circle the wet glossy mud" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 37. |
| Stolid Farmer to His Son | "Choose your wife for straight legs and an honest tongue." | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 33. |
| Stranger | "Following his father's footsteps" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 26. |
| The Army | "The pavements of the mind" | Country Men (1943) 62. |
| The Hammer and the Rat | "The teetering carpenter sets his spike" | Country Men (1943) 59. |
| The Neighborhood | "The neighborhood has a mind and heart of its own" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 24. |
| The Old Dog | "The old dog waits patiently for death" | The Sun at Noon 17. |
| The Other Land | "The strength and persuasion of the long slow turning" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 22. |
| The Vine | "His wife and young son in his heart, the future riding his shoulders" | The Sun at Noon 14. |
| Time Like a Hand | "The hardware merchant reaches back for the past" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 23. |
| Burn the Cocoons | "The sun waits in the sky for me" | Poetry 64 (May 1944) 78. |
| Accident | "The iron teeth of the harrow" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 61. |
| All Anyone Could Say | "The children that we love are busy people" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 58. |
| Analogy | "It's like digging all day at a buried stone" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 60. |
| Burning a Dead Heifer | "This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 63. |
| Construction | "The hammer voices went on an on" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 62. |
| Crow's Impatience | "After the hay was made and the threshing done," | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 37. |
| Fact | "I knew a man once who gave up the ghost" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 39. |
| Fog | "Waves of the sea's ghost" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 66. |
| For A Neighbor Woman | "Early this morning" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 28. |
| Impudence | "Rowdy winter wind," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 52. |
| Late Spring | "I tried to sow the oats and grass this year" | Furioso 6 (Winter 1951) 48. |
| Memorial Day | "It puzzles me to see the stooping people" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 51. |
| No Leaves? No Apples? | "No fruit bends the orchard trees" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 59. |