Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Love is Not Earned | "A display of my skills" | Northeast 3.11 (Summer 1981) 5. |
| Love Song | "Deep in the woods I wake" | Voyages to the Inland Sea, II: Essays and Poems by Felix Pollak, James Hearst, John Woods. 1972. 49. |
| Love's Apostate | "I shoulder my bag, slink through" | New York Herald Tribune 24 (July 1964) 16. |
| Love's Survival | "The blind fingertips of longing" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 51. |
| Love's Ways | "Almost as if you hungered to be free" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 57. |
| Mad Dog | "Like a great yellow dog, the sun" | Country Men (1937) viii. |
| Man with a Shovel | "The man with a shovel on his shoulder" | Anglo-American Studies 3.2 (November 1983) 253. |
| Many Hens Do Not Make Light Work | "The drake has too many hens" | |
| March Mourning | "The late snow is a fungus" | Wallace's Farmer. 11 March 1939. p. 6. |
| Marred | "This headache of a morning" | Sparrow Magazine (July 1965) 21. |
| Meeting a Pheasant Hunter in Our Grove | "The bush’s shape has been bent by the wind" | American Prefaces 6 (Autumn 1940) 44. |
| Melancholy at Night | "Each evening at bedtime" | Poetry View (27 July 1980) 9. |
| Memorial Day | "It puzzles me to see the stooping people" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 51. |
| Memorial Day 1982 | "Henry Jensen sits in the sun" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 32. |
| Men Give More Than Promises | "You'd let me walk barefoot on" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 47. |
| Metamorphosis | "I starved for the honey you" | Wormwood Review 6 (1966) 28. |
| Mexico (San Miguel de Allende) | "Fresh from the slow hills of Iowa" | Ladies Home Journal (May 1962) 32. |
| Mind-Boggled | "His mind bent with the weight" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 39. |
| Missed Fortune | "Late for our dates," | Boston Monthly 111.11 (March 1982) 14. |
| Modern Design | "How can you clean up the place" | Slow Loris Reader 1 (1978) 69. |
| Moment Like Love | "To see the shine, the glimmer of light," | Meanjin Quarterly 29 (Feb 1970) 189. |
| Moment Toward Spring | "This is the day when on the hills of noon" | Ladies Home Journal (March 1959) 28. |
| Moments of Being Away | "Today I walked through the house" | Chariton Review 9.1 (April 1983) 16. |
| Morning Song | "I often think of night as a wave lifting me into the morning" | Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260. |
| Morning Walk | "The first thing after breakfast" | Aspen Times (July 1967). |