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51 |
The Oracle |
The oracle whose customer I am |
Poetry |
1951 |
uncertainty, foretelling |
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Snake in the Strawberries 23. |
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52 |
Inquiry |
Now catch your breath and hear the softly rounded |
Poetry |
1935 |
promise, resurrection |
America Is West Ed. John T. Flanagan. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota (1945) 309. |
Country Men (1937) ix, (1938) 28, (1943) 38, Landmark and Other Poems 45. |
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53 |
The Grail |
The snow falls like flakes of light- |
Poetry |
1935 |
faith, religion |
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Country Men (1937) x, (1938) 30, (1943) 39, Man and His Field 42, Landmark and Other Poems 58. |
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54 |
Hard Way to Learn |
A trickle of water from |
Poetry |
1979 |
farming, knowledge |
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55 |
Forsythia |
You said, take a few dry |
Poetry |
1965 |
flowers, surprise |
North American Review (1974) 31, The Iowan (Spring 1979) 20. |
A Single Focus 13, Snake in the Strawberries 36, The Good Earth 61. |
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56 |
Behind the Stove |
It takes more than wind and sleet to |
Poetry |
1965 |
affair, desire |
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A Single Focus 48, Landmark and Other Poems 11. |
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57 |
Barns In November |
Along an empty road I watched the barns |
Poetry |
1935 |
winter, harvest |
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Country Men (1937) xxiv, (1938) 46, (1943) 54, Man and His Field 31, Snake in the Strawberries 8. |
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58 |
No Nightingales, No Nymphs |
The imperatives of spring |
Poetry |
1979 |
spring, work |
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59 |
Clover Swaths |
My eyes are cloudy with death. |
Poetry |
1932 |
youth, death |
College Eye, Iowa State Teachers College 12 July (1935) 2, Contemporary Iowa Poets Muscatine: The Prairie Press (1935) 2, Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 79, Late Harvest 71. |
Country Men (1937) xvi, (1938) 37, (1943) 44, Man and His Field 70, Snake in the Strawberries 15. |
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60 |
Frost |
Though nothing came that could be heard |
Poetry |
1930 |
fall, death |
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Country Men (1937) iv, (1938) 20, (1943) 30, Man and His Field 43, Landmark and Other Poems 32. |
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61 |
Fall Plowing |
The claim the stubble had no longer defends |
Poetry |
1934 |
fall, death |
College Eye, Iowa State Teachers College 12 July (1935) 2 col. 3, Contemporary Iowa Poets Muscatine: The Prairie Press (1935) 27, Late Harvest 73. |
Country Men (1937) xiv, (1938) 36, (1943) 43, Man and His Field 30, Snake in the Strawberries 13. |
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62 |
The Sun at Noon |
No country leads so softly to nowhere |
Poetry |
1940 |
mortality, appreciation |
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The Sun at Noon 9, Man and His Field 20. |
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63 |
Landmark |
The road wound back among the hills of mind |
Poetry |
1962 |
memory, impermanence |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest. 77, Interpreting Literature. 4th ed. K.L. Knickerbocker and H.W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969. 364, The Iowan (Spring 1979) 17. |
Limited View 6, Landmark and Other Poems 7. |
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64 |
Voices |
The restless sea is calling, and I would be away |
Good Housekeeping |
1924 |
longing, restriction |
All the Silver Pennies. Ed. Blanche Jennings Thompson. New York: MacMillan (1967) 128. |
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65 |
The Movers |
The east wind whips the skirts of the snow |
American Prefaces |
1937 |
travelers, faith |
Rural Roads to Security. (1940) 94-5, Out of the Midwest. (1944) 400, America is West. Ed. John T. Flanagan. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota (1945) 307, Poetry Pilot (Jan. 1962) 9. |
Country Men (1937) vi, (1938) 26, (1943) 32, Man and His Field 21, Landmark and Other Poems 45, The Good Earth 52. |
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66 |
After Chores |
Close down, Night |
American Prefaces |
1935 |
chores, sleep |
American Prefaces 5 (June 1940) 169. |
Country Men (1937) xxxvii, (1938) 58, (1943) 66, Man and His Field 48, Snake in the Strawberries 26 |
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67 |
Quarrel |
In the angry silence |
American Prefaces |
1940 |
marriage, anger |
America 27 (Nov. 1965) 671. |
The Sun at Noon 13, Man and His Field 56. |
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68 |
Winter Shower |
This morning's miracle shakes my faith |
American Prefaces |
1937 |
winter, perceptions |
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The Sun at Noon 16, Man and His Field 49. |
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69 |
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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70 |
Boundary Lines |
The dog has a squirrel up a tree. |
American Prefaces |
1940 |
fear, animals |
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The Sun at Noon 19, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
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71 |
When a Neighbor Dies |
Safe from loneliness, safe from storm, |
American Prefaces |
1936 |
death, nature |
Cedar Falls (Iowa) Record 26 June (1937) 37, Midland Schools 77 (Mar. 1963) 13. |
Country Men (1937) xv, (1938) 34, (1943) 42, Man and His Field 29, Landmark and Other Poems 15. |
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72 |
Meeting a Pheasant Hunter in Our Grove |
The bush’s shape has been bent by the wind |
American Prefaces |
1940 |
wind, nature |
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73 |
Invocation |
Come, you farmers, let us sing together |
American Prefaces |
1936 |
farming, religion |
American Prefaces 6 (Autumn 1940) 42. |
Man and His Field 34, Snake in the Strawberries 22. |
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74 |
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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75 |
Elegy |
Listen, my friend, shuttered in |
Today |
1966 |
spring, isolation |
Annals of Iowa 42 (Spring 1974) 294, Late Harvest 76. |
A Single Focus 66, Snake in the Strawberries 37. |
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