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

Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
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Country Men | "The pussy willows show again" | Midland (May 1931) 1. |
Cows Bawl on Sunday | "The Image of God" | American Prefaces 1 (Summer 1936) 150. |
Crop Inspector | "The farmer opened the gate," | Poetry Now 7.2 (1983) 20. |
Cross Purposes | "The farmer sun" | Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts 5 (Winter 1961) 93. |
Crow's Impatience | "After the hay was made and the threshing done," | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 37. |
Cry Shame | "Stones outlast weather," | America (1Nov. 1969) 393. |
Dark Flower | "Oh, no, do not look too long" | Country Men (1938) 52. |
Day After Day | "The baby cries in its crib" | Virginia Quarterly Review 51 (Winter 1975) 72. |
Day of the Cornfield | "The day of the cornfield all right," | The Small Farm (Oct. 1976-March 1977) 11. |
Day with a Bad Taste | "The street gasps with the exhaust" | Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst. Final Thursday Press, 2017. 25. |
Day's Facts | "There came a morning when" | Prairie Schooner 44 (Spring 1970) 43. |
Day's Routine | "A day of simple duties" | Today 21(Jan. 1966) 13. |
Daydream | "Warmed to drowsiness by the" | Mainstreeter (Summer 1977) 41. |
Dead Crows | "Early in the morning two crow abandoned wing" | Hinterland 1 (Sept. 1936) 4. |
Deaf Ear | "You said you would come and" | Chicago Tribune Magazine (29 March 1970) 11. |
Death of a Marriage | "They reached home," | Black and White 1 (1979) 18. |
Destruction | "The barn stood for shelter" | The Denver Quarterly 4 (Spring 1969) 85. |
Detention | "The wilted flowers" | View Magazine (Sept 1974) 11. |
Dirge for an old Wound | "Any root worth its salt" | Lamp in the Spine 4 (Spring 1972) 73. |
Dirty Old Man's Poem | "A dirty old man’s poem" | Periodical of Art in Nebraska (Summer 1976) 9. |
Discarded | "I tried to open a drawer in" | Iowa State Liquor Store 2 (Winter 1970) 22. |
Discord | "After the accident" | Voyages to the Inland Sea, II: Essays and Poems by Felix Pollak, James Hearst, John Woods. 1972. 50. |
Discovery | "The wind swept the yard, wrinkled the pond," | Catholic Rural Life (March 1963) 6. |
Do People Care for People? | "Appetites in the barnyard bawled" | Wormwood Review 19 (1979) 32. |
Dogma | "Sucked and bitten I shake" | Virginia Quarterly Review 45 (Winter 1969) 64. |