|
26 |
Best Not to Hope for Miracles |
He had heard that water |
A Country Man |
1993 |
mortality, illness |
|
A Country Man 41. |
|
|
27 |
Cerebral Palsy |
Each morning the wild, random |
The Windless Orchard |
1980 |
illness, perseverance |
|
|
|
|
28 |
The Well |
By accident one day I found a well, |
Iowa English Yearbook |
1961 |
water, restoration |
|
Limited View 40. |
|
|
29 |
Fear of Renewal |
Snow rotted at the sun's touch, |
Chicago Tribune Magazine |
1968 |
seasons, loneliness |
|
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 57. |
|
|
30 |
Evergreen Transformations |
‘‘Who knocks on my door?’’ asks History |
The Alumnus |
1976 |
education, truth |
|
|
|
|
31 |
False Warning |
The meadow has lost its features and the grove |
Poetry |
1940 |
wilderness, winter |
|
A Single Focus 21. |
|
|
32 |
Sad, the Way It Is |
Stay, stay, pussy willow pussies, |
Green Magazine |
1975 |
time, impermanence |
|
|
|
|
33 |
Farm on a Summer Night |
From a clear sky at night the starlight |
Country Men |
1937 |
faith, religion |
|
Country Men (1937) v, (1938) 21, (1943) 31. |
|
|
34 |
One Thing Leads to Another |
A flock of geese and a basket |
A Country Man |
1993 |
birds, shame |
|
A Country Man 14. |
|
|
35 |
Gift for All |
The miracles of creation |
Skylark |
1981 |
animals |
|
|
|
|
36 |
Shake in Vain |
Shake in vain the orchard trees |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
trees, longing |
|
Planting Red Geraniums 17 |
|
|
37 |
A Return to Facts |
You check out the office |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
renewal, retirement |
|
Dry Leaves, Snake in the Strawberries 63. |
|
|
38 |
The Painter |
Our local painter always seemed afraid |
Wanderer |
1924 |
death, prudence |
|
|
|
|
39 |
Trials of Ownership |
The title to the land's a piece of paper |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, owning |
|
A Single Focus 41. |
|
|
40 |
Poverty |
The field of clover sowed last fall |
Kansas Quarterly |
1971 |
weather, farming |
|
|
|
|
41 |
Year after Year |
By ones, twos and in groups |
A Country Man |
1993 |
routine, childhood |
|
A Country Man 16. |
|
|
42 |
Winter Morning |
I enter a winter morning |
Contact |
1981 |
isolation, winter |
|
|
|
|
43 |
Dogma |
Sucked and bitten I shake |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1969 |
animals, independence |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 49. |
|
|
44 |
First Signs |
Today the wind trudged in from the south |
Instructor |
1960 |
spring, weather |
|
Limited View 34, Landmark and Other Poems 35. |
|
|
45 |
Truant |
Little rowdy yellow duck, darting from your mother, |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
birds, adventure |
|
|
|
|
46 |
The Supermarket's Secret Machine |
Today my wife sent me to the |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
shopping, uncertainty |
|
|
|
|
47 |
Taking the Bull to Water |
The herd bull leaves his stall |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
animals, danger |
|
|
|
|
48 |
Father |
Nailheads broke off with the sound |
Wascana Review |
1976 |
family, kindness |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 74. |
|
|
49 |
Shaped by Names |
You must exist somewhere |
Canadian Forum |
1977 |
language, meaning |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 95. |
|
|
50 |
Spring Lament |
The season has sounded its call to the farm's sleepy ears, |
Limited View |
1962 |
spring, loneliness |
|
Landmark and Other Poems 53. |
|
