Title First Line Original Citation
Morning Song "I often think of night as a wave lifting me into the morning"

Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260.

Quarrel "In the angry silence"

American Prefaces 6 (Autumn 1940) 43.

The Same in This As Other Lands "He bows his head against the wind"

Poetry 56 (Aug 1940) 263.

The Search "Here on the hillside is a square of ground"

Wallace's Farmer 6 (April 1940) 246.

The Sun at Noon "No country leads so softly to nowhere"

Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260.

After Corn Husking "The last load ends the day"

University Review 9 (Winter 1942) 95.

The Fence Row "A ripple of ground still show the line where"

Poetry 60 (July 1942) 201.

Between Snow and Stars "The sun trips and falls headlong down the sky"

The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 20.

Choosing "The stolid farmer took his hoe"

The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 18.

Free Man "Hans Karen and debt were old friends until 1932"

The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 25.