Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| What Shall We Do? | "It is really a small matter," | South Dakota Review 4 (Spring 1966) 88. |
| Winter Mood | "Warm in mackinaw and boots I read" | America (19 Feb. 1966) 262. |
| Words of a Season | "Bundled in scarfs the kids ride their bikes" | Epoch 15 (Winter 1966) 132. |
| Before Frost | "Now summer's golden bell is mute" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 35. |
| Bowed Strength | "The winter sun had set" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 64. |
| Cold's Verdict | "Anger wraps me in a mantle of yellow" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 50. |
| Forewarned | "Now when the breath of frost has chilled" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 42. |
| Intruder | "The morning flowered in" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 65. |
| It Was Like This | "It was neither the Herod in me" | Commonweal (14 July 1967) 445. |
| Little Bull | "The...poor...little...bull" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 49. |
| Love's Survival | "The blind fingertips of longing" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 51. |
| Love's Ways | "Almost as if you hungered to be free" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 57. |
| Men Give More Than Promises | "You'd let me walk barefoot on" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 47. |
| Morning Walk | "The first thing after breakfast" | Aspen Times (July 1967). |
| Penance for Anger | "Many times you have fed me, my dear," | Northwest Review 9 (Summer 1967) 84. |
| Progress | "Own all the land you can get" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 44. |
| Propped Apple Tree | "Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 22. |
| Quarrel's Echo | "The front steps seemed not" | A Single Focus, 1967, pp. 40 |
| Revival | "The anxious hours numb me" | Reporter (30 Nov. 1967) 35. |
| Signed by Your Kiss | "We came too late, we found the trees" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 55. |
| The Change | "The same plowed field and" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 59. |
| The Molehill | "The molehill became a mountain" | Journal of Arts and Letters 2 (Winter 1967) 60. |
| The New Calf | "In the basement by the furnace lies" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 70. |
| Three Sides to a Farm | "So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 29. |
| Time's Flail | "A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 34. |