Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | "The wind swept the yard, wrinkled the pond," | Catholic Rural Life (March 1963) 6. |
| Home | "The house sags like it’s grieving, paint" | Hawk and Whippoorwill 4 (Autumn 1963) 31. |
| The Wasted Corner | "She was a higglety, pigglety hen" | Wormwood Review 3 (1963) 12. |
| Utopia | "When early dark and chilly rains" | Hawk and Whipporwill 4 (Spring 1963) 4. |
| Buried Seeds | "The buried seeds drink up the snow" | New York Herald Tribune (Jan. 1964). |
| Claim of Two Countries | "My native land finds its map" | New Frontiers 10 (1964-1965) 53. |
| Love's Apostate | "I shoulder my bag, slink through" | New York Herald Tribune 24 (July 1964) 16. |
| Ownership | "Old neighbors of my people" | Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts 7 (Spring 1964) 148. |
| Reprieve | "I too have gone" | Onward (Sep. 1964) 21. |
| Tasters | "The summer sun made blood like sap" | Midwest Quarterly 5 (Summer 1964) 293. |
| The Balance | "I bathed in the tender welter" | New Frontiers 10 (1964-1965) 52. |
| The Captain Ashore | "I know a man whose twisted wife" | New York Herald Tribune (July 1964). |
| The Return Flight | "Evening spread fingers of shadow" | New York Herald Tribune (Jan 1964). |
| Unearned Gift | "Shut the door" | America (12 Dec. 1964) 775. |
| Wilderness Token | "Wild grapes tied their vines" | New Mexico Quarterly 34 (Spring 1964) 63. |
| A Chance Meeting | "A chance day opened a door" | Motive (1965). |
| A Place to Sit | "Come in, come in, Neighbor, please come in" | New Frontiers 10 (1965) 25. |
| Apple Harvest | "The wind knocks on my door" | Bitterroot (Fall 1965). |
| Behind the Stove | "It takes more than wind and sleet to" | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 407. |
| Close the Accounts | "The putting away time shows up" | Commonweal (15 Oct. 1965) 57. |
| Cold Snap | "The winter night in your face" | Kansas City Magazine (1965) 28. |
| Common Ground | "Two neighbors lived across a road" | Kansas City Magazine (1965) 28. |
| For God's Sake | "Why don't you clean up your place," | Penny Poems From Midwestern University (31 Jan. 1965) 1. |
| Forsythia | "You said, take a few dry" | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 406. |
| Hen Pheasant | "Dusk fills the grove and seeps" | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 405. |