Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Point of View | "After a dark day low with clouds," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 43. |
| Statement | "It doesn't matter what the critics say," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 19. |
| The Advantage | "Three haystacks stood against the wind," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 65. |
| The Deacon Goes for His Sunday Paper | "Good morning, good morning, it is a good morning" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 67. |
| The Debtor | "These leaden days when the sky is overcast" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 61. |
| The Great Coincidence | "How strange that in the human flow," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 53. |
| The Harvesters | "Bright was the stubble, the sun that day" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 63. |
| The Oracle | "The oracle whose customer I am" | Poetry 78 (August 1951) 274. |
| The Orchard Man | "Grandfather came from a town meeting country," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 25. |
| The Return | "Shot from cannon-barrelled wind the sleet" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 32. |
| The Thief | "The fists of the summer sun" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 52. |
| Threat of Weather | "We know we can outlast the weather" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 57. |
| Three Old Horses | "Returning to the gate at close of day" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 24. |
| What Was That? | "Never was so much hubbub in the morning," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 41. |
| Harvest Claim | "The clover field in bloom seemed innocent" | Kansas City Star (18 June 1957). |
| Spring On The Farm | "The mixed emotions which I hold this spring" | Canadian Poetry Magazine 20 (Summer 1957) 15. |
| Surprise [1] | "You seemed brave but lost in the ambush of clover," | The Humanist 17 (July-Aug. 1957) 218. |
| Each Spring | "When ducks print signs in the mud for the farmer to read," | Music For Seven Poems (1958) |
| Lost | "I hear a child crying" | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| Scatter the Petals | "She sleeps as if the mouth of buds," | American Friend (30 Oct. 1958) 346. |
| Success | "When I come home from work at close of day" | Best Articles and Stories 2 (1958) 56. |
| The Happy Farmer | "This farm where I live" | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| The Hunter | "You cannot kill the white-tailed deer" | Music For Seven Poems, 1958. |
| The Old Admonitions | "The friend that I had" | Prairie Schooner 32 (Spring 1958) 38. |
| The Plowboy | "I’ll plow myself a pillow," | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |