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626 |
Hardened Arteries |
When the office screwed a few bucks |
Poetry Now |
1975 |
selfishness, guilt |
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Proved by Trial 14. |
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627 |
It Might Be True |
When we kids complained about |
English Journal |
1980 |
childhood, superstition |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 39. |
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628 |
Theology |
When we were boys a man my father hired |
Midland |
1927 |
religion, fear |
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Country Men (1937) xxxviii, (1938) 60 (1943) 68. |
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629 |
Autumn Love |
When you stood smiling under a roof of leaves |
Ladies Home Journal |
1959 |
love, fall |
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Limited View 27, Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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630 |
Where Did They Go? |
Where did they go, the maple grove, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
time, memory |
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A Country Man 46. |
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631 |
Winter Field |
Whether or not the man who turned |
Purple Pen |
1937 |
death, winter |
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Country Men (1937) xviii, (1938) 39, (1943) 46, Man and His Field 68, Snake in the Strawberries 15. |
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632 |
Warm-Eyed Memory |
While I wait for my next student |
Sou'wester Literary Quarterly |
1968 |
birds, memory |
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633 |
Undone by Frost |
While once again you must accept |
English Journal |
1971 |
flowers, time |
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634 |
Let's Not Fool Ourselves |
While you wait, time digs at you |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II: Essays and Poems |
1972 |
longing, time |
Prairie Schooner 44 (Spring 1979) 42. |
Proved by Trial 21. |
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635 |
Stormbound |
Whipped by the blizzard I fled |
New York Times |
1970 |
birds, weather |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 20. |
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636 |
Storm Bound |
Whipped by the blizzard I fled |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
winter, birds |
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637 |
Revelation |
Who ordained the flicker on my |
Christian Science Monitor |
1973 |
morning, birds |
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Snake in the Strawberries 59. |
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638 |
To An Old Sow |
Whoa there, you crazy sow, where do you think you're going? |
Limited View |
1962 |
animals, identification |
North American Review (1974) 20. |
Limited View 29, Landmark and Other Poems 54. |
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639 |
For God's Sake |
Why don't you clean up your place, |
Penny Poems From Midwestern University |
1965 |
garden, decay |
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Proved by Trial 19, Landmark and Other Poems 21. |
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640 |
Improve the View |
Why don't you decorate |
Nebraska Review |
1981 |
religion, mortality |
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641 |
No Advice Today, Thank You |
Why, the presumptuous bastard |
Kansas Quarterly |
1982 |
religion, relationships |
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642 |
Wilderness Token |
Wild grapes tied their vines |
New Mexico Quarterly |
1964 |
nature, appreciation |
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A Single Focus 16. |
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643 |
Tired of Earth |
Wind bites dust from the furrows |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1962 |
farming, death |
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Limited View 14, Late Harvest 72. |
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644 |
Winter Reverie |
Winter grips the farm |
after Ward Bib. |
1986 |
winter, perseverance |
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A Country Man 37. |
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645 |
The Problem Comes |
With the new schedule |
Kansas Quarterly |
1971 |
retirement, aging |
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646 |
The Forest |
Within the forest of my heart |
Country Men |
1937 |
love, reflection |
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Country Men (1937) xx, (1938) 41, (1943) 48, Man and His Field 55. |
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647 |
Yes, It Would |
Wouldn't it be a gas some morning |
Quartet |
1974 |
responsibility, animals |
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Landmark and Other Poems 9. |
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648 |
The Farmer's Season |
Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season, |
America |
1965 |
spring, farming |
"Book Review," Wallace's Farmer (28 Oct. 1967) 3, North American Review (1974) 34, Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 5. |
A Single Focus 3, Landmark and Other's Poems 56. |
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649 |
Need for Grass |
Yes, there it was, |
Limited View |
1962 |
death, mourning |
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Limited View 23. |
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650 |
Enjoy Your Release |
You better grow the |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
death, happiness |
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Planting Red Geraniums 26 |
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