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

| Title | First Line | Original Citation | 
|---|---|---|
| Cold's Verdict | "Anger wraps me in a mantle of yellow" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 50.  | 
              
| Forewarned | "Now when the breath of frost has chilled" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 42.  | 
              
| Intruder | "The morning flowered in" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 65.  | 
              
| It Was Like This | "It was neither the Herod in me" | Commonweal (14 July 1967) 445. | 
| Little Bull | "The...poor...little...bull" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 49.  | 
              
| Love's Survival | "The blind fingertips of longing" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 51.  | 
              
| Love's Ways | "Almost as if you hungered to be free" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 57.  | 
              
| Men Give More Than Promises | "You'd let me walk barefoot on" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 47.  | 
              
| Morning Walk | "The first thing after breakfast" | Aspen Times (July 1967). | 
| Penance for Anger | "Many times you have fed me, my dear," | Northwest Review 9 (Summer 1967) 84. |