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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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Kelly's Woods |
Kelly’s Woods—our picnic grounds |
Time Like a Furrow: Essays |
1981 |
family, childhood |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 40-42. |
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3 |
Seventh Grade |
The scrubbed question marks |
English Journal |
1971 |
children, school |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 43. |
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This Is the Way It Seems |
The first of the month the mail |
English Journal |
1982 |
money, routine |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 44. |
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5 |
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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6 |
What Shall We Do? |
It is really a small matter, |
South Dakota Review |
1966 |
nonconformist, nature |
North American Review (1974) 25. |
A Single Focus 36, Landmark and Other Poems 17. |
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7 |
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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8 |
Truth |
How the devil do I know |
Sparrow Magazine |
1961 |
knowledge, farming |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 79, Interpreting Literature. 4th ed. K.L. Knickerbocker and H.W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969. 289, Interpreting Literature. 5th ed. 1974. 19, North American Review (1974) 19, The Iowan (Spring |
Limited View 38, Snake in the Strawberries 28, The Good Earth 67. |
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9 |
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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10 |
The Young Old-Timer |
His hands seek each other under his overall bib |
Wallace's Farmer |
1938 |
farming, resentment |
North American Review (1974) 32. |
The Sun at Noon 12, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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The Way It Is |
Prepare the ground, I told her, |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
gardening, gender |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 18. |
Snake in the Strawberries 80. |
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12 |
The Visit |
The little world of the garden bare, |
Wormwood Review |
1962 |
birds, winter |
Snake in the Strawberries 33. |
Limited View 41. |
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13 |
The Tarnish |
The afternoon failed of its promise and the sun |
Wormwood Review |
1962 |
weather, decay |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest. 78. |
Limited View 19, Landmark and Other Poems 26. |
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14 |
The Snapshot |
There we four sit, quick perched as sparrows on a wire, |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
memory, holiday |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 15, Christmas in Iowa. Ed. Clarence Andrews. Iowa City: Midwest Heritage Publishing Co. (1979) 66. |
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15 |
The Reason For Stars |
I never wonder a lot about stars |
Midland |
1926 |
diligence, farming |
North American Review (1974) 38. |
Country Men (1937) xxix, (1938) 51, (1943) 58, Man and His Field 46, Snake in the Strawberries 14, Landmark and Other Poems 26. |
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16 |
The Questioner |
When evening bows its head so does the farmer, |
Compass Review |
1958 |
farming, significance |
North American Review (1974) 24. |
Limited View 10, Landmark and Other Poems 39. |
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17 |
The Promise Seems True |
Snow wastes away, icicles rot, |
Antigonish Review |
1971 |
farming, ownership |
New River Review 2 (1977) 60. |
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18 |
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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19 |
The Inevitable Words like Signposts |
The morning's paper carried a story |
Ohio Review |
1978 |
death, friendship |
The Iowan (Spring 1979) 22, Ohio Review 30 (1983) 252. |
Snake in the Strawberries 100. |
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20 |
The Hammer and the Rat |
The teetering carpenter sets his spike |
Country Men |
1943 |
distraction, inaction |
North American Review (1974) 33. |
Country Men (1943) 59. Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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21 |
The Great Coincidence |
How strange that in the human flow, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, chance |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 80. |
Man and His Field 53. |
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22 |
The Fence Row |
A ripple of ground still show the line where |
Poetry |
1942 |
division, memory |
Mid-Country. Ed. Lowry C. Wimberly. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (1945) 467. |
The Sun at Noon 38, Man and His Field 50, Snake in the Strawberries 20. |
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23 |
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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24 |
The Farmer's Bride |
Dry weeds wait for snow, |
Commonweal |
1971 |
winter, chores |
Voyages to Inland Sea, II 46. |
Snake in the Strawberries 56. |
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25 |
Success |
When I come home from work at close of day |
Best Articles and Stories |
1958 |
farming, animals |
Poetry 92 (Aug. 1958) 299. |
Limited View 3, Landmark and Other Poems 52. |
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