Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| The Questioner | "When evening bows its head so does the farmer," | Compass Review 2 (April 1958) 6. |
| The Supplicant | "I try, when I awake, on a bright Sunday morning" | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| Truant | "Little rowdy yellow duck, darting from your mother," | Music For Seven Poems (1958). |
| Autumn Love | "When you stood smiling under a roof of leaves" | Ladies Home Journal (Nov. 1959) 114. |
| Emerson's Page | "His Neighbors scratched" | Educational Leadership 17 (Oct. 1959) 10, |
| Grandfather's Farm | "The worn scythe hangs in the box-elder tree," | The Saturday Evening Post (29 Aug. 1959) 43. |
| Moment Toward Spring | "This is the day when on the hills of noon" | Ladies Home Journal (March 1959) 28. |
| The Barn | "It was like a house but larger and not so tame," | Instructor 68 (Feb 1959) 66. |
| The Cricket | "If the sparrows would stop" | Educational Leadership 17 (Oct. 1959) 15. |
| The Reminder | "When the day finally ended I felt wet and cold" | Educational Leadership 17 (Oct. 1959) 141. |
| The Shadow | "I have seen the butcher's shadow" | Chicago Jewish Forum 18 (Winter 1959-60) 142. |
| The Unprotected | "The sun at noon" | America (26 Sept. 1959) 768. |
| Time of Contrition | "Today I saw the gossip pack" | Denver Post (11 Oct. 1959). |
| Time to Act | "At last the revelation, a brisk wind peels" | Kansas City Magazine (1959) 51. |
| Farmhand | "A mule with fork and shovel breeds no honey" | Prairie Schooner (Spring 1960) 54. |
| First Signs | "Today the wind trudged in from the south" | Instructor 69 (Feb. 1960) 43. |
| Late Meadowlark | "We know the meaning when we read the signs" | The Saturday Evening Post (1 Oct. 1960) 50. |
| See How the Wind | "See how the wind repeats itself" | America (2 Jan. 1960) 394. |
| Time's Laggard | "The house of summer closed its doors." | The Saturday Evening Post (15 Oct. 1960) 125. |
| Vigilance | "Rocks grow expensive" | Kansas City Magazine (1960) 88. |
| Weed Solitude | "Machines worn out, embalmed in rust," | Kansas City Magazine (1960) 88. |
| A Matter of Fact | "All through the summer I failed to wring truth out of words," | Hawk and Whippoorwill 2 (Spring 1961) 8. |
| Advice to Farmers | "You trimmed the wilderness to size" | Sparrow Magazine (April 1961) 20. |
| Animal Tracks | "There is a tiger hid" | Hawk and Whippoorwill 2 (Spring 1961) 8. |
| Cross Purposes | "The farmer sun" | Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts 5 (Winter 1961) 93. |