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

| Title | First Line | Original Citation | 
|---|---|---|
| Progress | "Own all the land you can get" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 44.  | 
              
| Propped Apple Tree | "Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 22.  | 
              
| Quarrel's Echo | "The front steps seemed not" | A Single Focus, 1967, pp. 40  | 
              
| Revival | "The anxious hours numb me" | Reporter (30 Nov. 1967) 35.  | 
              
| Signed by Your Kiss | "We came too late, we found the trees" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 55.  | 
              
| The Change | "The same plowed field and" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 59.  | 
              
| The Molehill | "The molehill became a mountain" | Journal of Arts and Letters 2 (Winter 1967) 60. | 
| The New Calf | "In the basement by the furnace lies" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 70.  | 
              
| Three Sides to a Farm | "So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 29.  | 
              
| Time's Flail | "A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 34.  |