Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Best Not to Hope for Miracles | "He had heard that water" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 41. |
| Better a Bonfire | "Hitch up the mule," | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 29. |
| Between Neighbors | "A raw nerve jumped in our" | Wisconsin Review 6 (Fall 1970) 21. |
| Between Snow and Stars | "The sun trips and falls headlong down the sky" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 20. |
| Birth Pains | "I do not remember birth pains" | The New Renaissance 3 (Summer 1978) 69. |
| Birthplace | "This is the heart of the farm where I was born," | Limited View. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1962. 42. |
| Bitter Taste | "I ate the sour grapes and tried" | Kansas Quarterly 3 (Summer 1971) 84. |
| Blue Again | "We saw the horizon with stubborn clutch" | Country Men (1937) xxvi, (1938) 48, (1943) 53. |
| Bluejay | "Into the calm of morning as stone breaks" | Poetry Now 3 (Summer 1976) 24. |
| Bluejay and I | "The bluejay perches on the" | Spectrum, the Richmond Tri-Annual Review 5 (Winter 1969-1970) 25. |
| Book of the Mind | "Chilled and seared by the weather" | Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst. Final Thursday Press, 2017. 22. |
| Born Again | "He woke up when she died," | Poetry Now 3 (1976) 22. |
| Born Each Morning | "What a shocking way to enter the world," | Colorado Quarterly 26 (Summer 1977) 9. |
| Bound to Happen | "At the haybarn's peak where" | New England Review (1978-1982) 111.3 (Spring 1981) 369. |
| Boundary Lines | "The dog has a squirrel up a tree." | American Prefaces, 6 (Autumn 1940) 43. |
| Bowed Strength | "The winter sun had set" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 64. |
| Buried Seeds | "The buried seeds drink up the snow" | New York Herald Tribune (Jan. 1964). |
| Burn the Cocoons | "The sun waits in the sky for me" | Poetry 64 (May 1944) 78. |
| Burning a Dead Heifer | "This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 63. |
| But the Earth Abides | "The windmill squeaks, flaps broken vanes," | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 9. |
| Calendar's Mischief | "A day of shock," | America (24 Sept. 1977) 16. |
| Castrating the Pigs | "It always seemed to be a rainy day" | Poetry Now 5.4 Issue 28 (1980) 34. |
| Caveat Emptor | "I meant to take a quiet walk" | Inserat Groteski 10 (Jan 1971) 33. |
| Celebration of Losers | "This morning the roadway lacks friends," | North Country (Spring 1977) 22. |
| Cerebral Palsy | "Each morning the wild, random" | The Windless Orchard 36 (Spring-Summer 1980) 35. |