101 |
Common Ground |
Two neighbors lived across a road |
Kansas City Magazine |
1965 |
neighbors, farming |
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A Single Focus 28. |
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102 |
Con Man |
The gifts I buy and offer you, my dear, |
Wormwood Review |
1972 |
love, expectations |
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103 |
Conservative |
The wilderness sleeps in seed and furrow |
Today |
1966 |
farming, wilderness |
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A Single Focus 67, Landmark and Other Poems 49. |
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104 |
Consider a Poem |
If I speak to explain myself |
Stone Country |
1980 |
poetry, communication |
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105 |
Construction |
The hammer voices went on an on |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
labor, winter |
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Man and His Field 62. |
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106 |
The Contract |
You may have my garden if you will give to me |
Midland |
1926 |
gardening, apples |
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Country Men (1937) xxxiii, (1938) 55. |
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107 |
Country Men |
The pussy willows show again |
Midland |
1931 |
farming, spring |
Des Moines Register (May 1931) Sec. 10: 5, American Prefaces. (1937) 164, Hinterland (1937) 26, Out of the Midwest. (1944) 301, Rural Lutheran (March 1950), North American Review (1974) 23. |
Country Men (1937) i, (1938) 32, (1943) 40, Man and His Field 22, Snake in the Strawberries 14. |
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108 |
Of Course It Matters |
My neighbor stopped by this morning |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
misfortune, money |
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109 |
Cows Bawl on Sunday |
The Image of God |
American Prefaces |
1936 |
devotion, religion |
North American Review (1974) 23. |
Country Men (1937) xii, (1938) 32, (1943) 40, Man and His Field 22, Snake in the Strawberries 14. |
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110 |
The Cricket |
If the sparrows would stop |
Educational Leadership |
1959 |
noise, happiness |
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111 |
Crop Inspector |
The farmer opened the gate, |
Poetry Now |
1984 |
farming, perseverance |
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112 |
Cross Purposes |
The farmer sun |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1961 |
weather, superstition |
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Limited View 36, Landmark and Other Poems 40. |
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113 |
Crow's Impatience |
After the hay was made and the threshing done, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, birds |
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Man and His Field 37, Landmark and Other Poems 48. |
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114 |
Cry Shame |
Stones outlast weather, |
America |
1969 |
war, farming |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II 42. |
Snake in the Strawberries 55. |
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115 |
The Cure |
The bush at the corner of the house |
Sandlapper |
1977 |
homesickness, flowers |
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116 |
A Curious Critter |
Man is both good and kind |
Aspen Times |
1972 |
people, morality |
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117 |
The Dainty Lily Bell |
She’s liberated, you know, |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
sex, gender |
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Planting Red Geraniums 24 |
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118 |
Dark Flower |
Oh, no, do not look too long |
Country Men |
1938 |
flowers, morning |
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Country Men (1938) 52. |
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119 |
Day After Day |
The baby cries in its crib |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
insecurity, despair |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 18, Snake in the Strawberries 75. |
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120 |
Day of the Cornfield |
The day of the cornfield all right, |
The Small Farm |
1976 |
farming, observation |
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Snake in the Strawberries 59. |
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121 |
The Day of the Hawk |
I went to the city |
Aspen Times |
1970 |
loneliness, nature |
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122 |
Day with a Bad Taste |
The street gasps with the exhaust |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
cities, loneliness |
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Planting Red Geraniums 25 |
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123 |
Daydream |
Warmed to drowsiness by the |
Mainstreeter |
1977 |
fall, memory |
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124 |
Day's Facts |
There came a morning when |
Prairie Schooner |
1970 |
technology, breakdown |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 37. |
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125 |
Day's Routine |
A day of simple duties |
Today |
1966 |
work, marriage |
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Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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