Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.

| Title | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Success | "When I come home from work at close of day" | Best Articles and Stories 2 (1958) 56. |
| The Happy Farmer | "This farm where I live" | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| The Hunter | "You cannot kill the white-tailed deer" | Music For Seven Poems, 1958. |
| The Old Admonitions | "The friend that I had" | Prairie Schooner 32 (Spring 1958) 38. |
| The Plowboy | "I’ll plow myself a pillow," | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| The Questioner | "When evening bows its head so does the farmer," | Compass Review 2 (April 1958) 6. |
| The Supplicant | "I try, when I awake, on a bright Sunday morning" | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| Truant | "Little rowdy yellow duck, darting from your mother," | Music For Seven Poems (1958). |
| Autumn Love | "When you stood smiling under a roof of leaves" | Ladies Home Journal (Nov. 1959) 114. |
| Emerson's Page | "His Neighbors scratched" | Educational Leadership 17 (Oct. 1959) 10, |