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476 |
Trials of Ownership |
The title to the land's a piece of paper |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, owning |
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A Single Focus 41. |
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477 |
Forewarned |
Now when the breath of frost has chilled |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
farming, winter |
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A Single Focus 42, Snake in the Strawberries 45. |
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478 |
Virtue of Logic |
He believed in the generation |
The New Renaissance |
1978 |
reason, argument |
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479 |
Cross Purposes |
The farmer sun |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1961 |
weather, superstition |
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Limited View 36, Landmark and Other Poems 40. |
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480 |
Theology |
When we were boys a man my father hired |
Midland |
1927 |
religion, fear |
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Country Men (1937) xxxviii, (1938) 60 (1943) 68. |
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481 |
Caveat Emptor |
I meant to take a quiet walk |
Inserat Groteski |
1971 |
ownership, wilderness |
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482 |
There Are Those Who Say This |
I lit the bonfire, |
Chariton Review |
1983 |
fire, destruction |
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483 |
Apparition in the Afternoon |
The telephone lies in its incubator. |
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1979 |
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484 |
Day of the Cornfield |
The day of the cornfield all right, |
The Small Farm |
1976 |
farming, observation |
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Snake in the Strawberries 59. |
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485 |
Spring Weather |
Just when the grass |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
weather, marriage |
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Planting Red Geraniums 31 |
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486 |
Undertow |
The bay of morning shines through |
Seven |
1965 |
writing, distraction |
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A Single Focus 58, Snake in the Strawberries 43. |
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487 |
My Father's Care |
The binder glittered in the sun, |
Iowa English Yearbook |
1961 |
farming, aging |
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Limited View 32, Landmark and Other Poems 11. |
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488 |
Land of Beginnings |
The door you once closed lets you slip through |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
time, farming |
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Snake in the Strawberries 3. |
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489 |
Leaves Like Tears |
You say the leaves fall |
Midwest Quarterly |
1969 |
grief, winter |
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490 |
The Hurt of Pleasure |
Once a week she comes to share |
A Country Man |
1986 |
gardening, friendship |
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A Country Man 42. |
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491 |
The Malicious Spirit of Machines |
Right in our own house, |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
machines, breakdown |
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492 |
Statistics and Waterfalls |
The textbook lies on the |
Black and White |
1979 |
knowledge, imagination |
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493 |
The Old Admonitions |
The friend that I had |
Prairie Schooner |
1958 |
loneliness, loss |
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Limited View 2, Snake in the Strawberries 30, The Good Earth 57. |
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494 |
There Must Be Somewhere to Go |
Wait for me, wait for me, |
North Country |
1977 |
uncertainty, leaving |
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495 |
Moving Day |
I have moved from one house |
A Country Man |
1993 |
moving, change |
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A Country Man 38. |
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496 |
Pressed Flowers |
The flowers we picked last summer |
Nimrod |
1971 |
memory, flowers |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 36, Snake in the Strawberries 73. |
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497 |
An Older Language |
Riding up on a southwest wind |
Amanuensis |
1972 |
birds, spring |
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498 |
Anyone Can See |
Anyone with half wit can see |
Poetry Now |
1981 |
farming, gift |
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499 |
I Set My Chair |
I set my chair on the driveway |
Proved by Trial |
1977 |
meditation, interruptions |
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Proved by Trial 25, Snake in the Strawberries 88. |
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500 |
The Unprotected |
The sun at noon |
America |
1959 |
farming, responsibility |
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Limited View 35, Snake in the Strawberries 27. |
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