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326 |
Need of Solid Ground |
He hadn't offended God nor failed His Word |
Limited View |
1962 |
work, perseverance |
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Limited View 18. |
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327 |
The Short Run and the Long Pull |
Our fields lay side by side, |
Nebraska Review |
1981 |
farming, fertilizer |
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328 |
Love's Apostate |
I shoulder my bag, slink through |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
forgiveness, resentment |
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A Single Focus 54. |
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329 |
Once Glimpsed |
Once I thought I saw it |
Poem |
1969 |
longing, uncertainty |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 44. |
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330 |
The Burden |
Apple bloom spread on the orchard floor, |
Midland |
1926 |
blossoming, nature |
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Country Men (1937) xxx. |
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331 |
Evergreen Transformations |
‘‘Who knocks on my door?’’ asks History |
The Alumnus |
1976 |
education, truth |
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332 |
Sad, the Way It Is |
Stay, stay, pussy willow pussies, |
Green Magazine |
1975 |
time, impermanence |
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333 |
The Orchard Man |
Grandfather came from a town meeting country, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
family, perseverance |
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Man and His Field 25. |
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334 |
No Advice Today, Thank You |
Why, the presumptuous bastard |
Kansas Quarterly |
1982 |
religion, relationships |
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335 |
The Blame |
It is difficult to explain |
Kansas Quarterly |
1970 |
affair, regret |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 62, Snake in the Strawberries 71. |
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336 |
Not Born Again |
This land partly from me, |
Yankee Magazine |
1977 |
nature, mortality |
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Snake in the Strawberries 85. |
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337 |
Book of the Mind |
Chilled and seared by the weather |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
introspection, thoughts |
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Planting Red Geraniums 22 |
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338 |
No Symbols |
The barn's warm breath |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
birth, meaning |
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Snake in the Strawberries 12. |
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339 |
The Painter |
Our local painter always seemed afraid |
Wanderer |
1924 |
death, prudence |
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340 |
Bitter Taste |
I ate the sour grapes and tried |
Kansas Quarterly |
1971 |
anger, nature |
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341 |
Burning a Dead Heifer |
This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, animals |
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Man and His Field 63. |
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342 |
Moments of Being Away |
Today I walked through the house |
Chariton Review |
1983 |
ownership, belonging |
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343 |
One Way For An Answer |
No way, just no way, |
Proved by Trial |
1977 |
mountains, revelation |
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Proved by Trial 21, Landmark and Other Poems 28. |
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344 |
Woman and Her Wayward Garden |
Maples and oaks turn scarlet, |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
fall, wistfulness |
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Dry Leaves. |
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345 |
Homesickness |
Marie Summers took a course in Commercial |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
cities, alienation |
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The Sun at Noon 28, Snake in the Strawberries 19. |
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346 |
Truant |
Little rowdy yellow duck, darting from your mother, |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
birds, adventure |
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347 |
The Supermarket's Secret Machine |
Today my wife sent me to the |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
shopping, uncertainty |
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348 |
Sharers |
You grieved so for a rosebush |
Ladies Home Journal |
1971 |
flowers, loss |
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Snake in the Strawberries 52. |
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349 |
Today is Now |
It doesn't need headlines, |
Focus |
1984 |
aging, memory |
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350 |
Important Question |
I didn't come here |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II |
1972 |
thoughts, neighbors |
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Landmark and Other Poems 19. |
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