|
501 |
Live with Love |
Early in the morning |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
love, perseverance |
|
Planting Red Geraniums 28 |
|
|
502 |
Wonder of Hummingbirds |
Glass cells of red syrup hang |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
birds, amazement |
|
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 68, Landmark and Other Poems 24 (variant). |
|
|
503 |
Penalty for Anger |
The walls of heart shook |
Southwest Review |
1978 |
argument, silence |
|
|
|
|
504 |
Resolution |
Strokes took off the big tree's top |
after Ward Bib. |
1982 |
work |
|
|
|
|
505 |
The Reminder |
When the day finally ended I felt wet and cold |
Educational Leadership |
1959 |
love, farming |
|
|
|
|
506 |
Ute Cemetery |
Gravestones lean every which way, |
Westerly Review |
1977 |
death, memory |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 90. |
|
|
507 |
The Storm |
A storm struck down the old willow |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
weather, imagination |
|
A Single Focus 62, Landmark and Other Poems 31. |
|
|
508 |
Evening |
Be quiet, Heart, the sun goes down |
Country Men |
1938 |
sunset, peacefulness |
|
Country Men (1938) 62, (1943) 70, Man and His Field 71. |
|
|
509 |
To Build a Fence |
We stretch a barbed wire from corner post |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
fences, labor |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 6. |
|
|
510 |
Virtue of Logic |
He believed in the generation |
The New Renaissance |
1978 |
reason, argument |
|
|
|
|
511 |
Within Limits |
One afternoon in early spring |
Anglo-American Studies |
1983 |
cleaning, decay |
|
A Country Man 20. |
|
|
512 |
Caveat Emptor |
I meant to take a quiet walk |
Inserat Groteski |
1971 |
ownership, wilderness |
|
|
|
|
513 |
Death of a Marriage |
They reached home, |
Black and White |
1979 |
divorce, silence |
|
|
|
|
514 |
Too Many Defeats Dull the Spirit |
The worst was |
Poetry Now |
1975 |
farming, weather |
|
Proved by Trial 12, Snake in the Strawberries 92. |
|
|
515 |
A Testament |
The ant down there, dragging his leg, |
America |
1973 |
perseverance, insects |
|
Snake in the Strawberries 58. |
|
|
516 |
Choosing |
The stolid farmer took his hoe |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
farming, choice |
|
The Sun at Noon 18, Landmark and Other Poems 50, Man and His Field 33. |
|
|
517 |
Let it Come Down |
Glad that at last the litter and waster of winter, |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
518 |
Winter Reverie |
Winter grips the farm |
after Ward Bib. |
1986 |
winter, perseverance |
|
A Country Man 37. |
|
|
519 |
Benchmark of Plunder |
We needed an onion, the row |
A Country Man |
1993 |
theft, exchange |
|
A Country Man 25. |
|
|
520 |
Try, Try Again |
When I was young the girls were quick |
Monthly magazine for the Arts of Storytelling |
1972 |
aging, sex |
|
|
|
|
521 |
Castrating the Pigs |
It always seemed to be a rainy day |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
animals, masculinity |
|
|
|
|
522 |
The Flower |
The afternoon bent over |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
love, flowers |
|
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 15. |
|
|
523 |
Need for a Quick Step |
I noticed the cow in heat |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
animals, danger |
|
|
|
|
524 |
Spring Barnyard |
Pigeons circle the wet glossy mud |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
animals, materiality |
|
The Sun at Noon 37. |
|
|
525 |
Shortcut |
A shortcut, so we said, a different road, |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
countryside, lost |
|
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 35. |
|
