351 |
No Leaves? No Apples? |
No fruit bends the orchard trees |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
fall, perseverance |
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Man and His Field 59. |
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352 |
No More Chores |
The old farmer nurses rheumatic joints |
Event: Journal of Contemporary Art |
1978 |
farming, memory |
The New Renaissance 3 (1979) 45. |
Snake in the Strawberries 98. |
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353 |
No News is Good News |
Having read the same names in the paper |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
community, significance |
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354 |
No Nightingales, No Nymphs |
The imperatives of spring |
Poetry |
1979 |
spring, work |
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355 |
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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356 |
No Word for the Wise |
We can tell the year's close |
Southwest Review |
1979 |
winter, aging |
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357 |
Not a Birthday but a Deathday Party |
The indigent days beg me |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
mortality, wishes |
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358 |
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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359 |
Not Floods but Emptiness |
This morning I stepped outdoors |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1969 |
language, nature |
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360 |
Not for Sale |
You thought a dollar sign imaged |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
love, money |
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361 |
Not Really a Quarrel |
Granted we slept well and |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
argument, marriage |
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362 |
Not the Day to Listen |
This nifty gent with a spry tongue |
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1986 |
death, work |
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A Country Man 40. |
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363 |
Not the Last Goodbye |
Hat askew, coat open, |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
love, worry |
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364 |
Not to Be Overlooked |
We had a bull calf born premature, |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
surprise, validation |
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Snake in the Strawberries 7. |
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365 |
Not to Give In |
"I wouldn't take a horse |
A Country Man |
1993 |
father, defiance |
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A Country Man 48. |
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366 |
November |
The sun dripped honey-colored days |
Ladies Home Journal |
1965 |
fall, harvest |
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A Single Focus 71, Landmark and Other Poems 32. |
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367 |
Now Hear This |
Your Honor, she cried, I need help. |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
religion, marriage |
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368 |
Now I Have Taken to the Fields |
Now I have taken to the fields |
Country Men |
1937 |
hope, land |
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Country Men (1937) xix, (1938) 40, (1943) 47, Man and His Field 54, Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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369 |
Now I Hear This |
Your Honor, she cried, I need help. |
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1982 |
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370 |
An Occasion |
In the late afternoon, |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
fall, love |
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Dry Leaves, Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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371 |
Off Limits |
He burned the grass |
Poetry Now |
1979 |
fire, control |
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372 |
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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373 |
The Old Dog |
The old dog waits patiently for death |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
death |
North American Review (1974) 23. |
The Sun at Noon 17, Landmark and Other Poems 47. |
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374 |
An Older Language |
Riding up on a southwest wind |
Amanuensis |
1972 |
birds, spring |
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375 |
The Oldest Season |
The eye's doors blown open |
America |
1968 |
winter, defamiliarization |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 19. |
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