Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Appetites | "We had a hired man whose remarks" | South Dakota Review 16 (Summer 1978) 46. |
| Change toward Certainty | "The afternoon closed it until it seemed" | Limited View. Iowa City: The Prairie Press. 1962. 20. |
| Chill Comfort | "The sun rose, burned off the mist," | Virginia Quarterly Review 52 (Winter 1975) 72. |
| Choosing | "The stolid farmer took his hoe" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 18. |
| Choreman | "I am a born choreman" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 44. |
| Claim for Damages | ""The man recovered from the bite," | Focus 15.95 (1984) 20. |
| Claim of Two Countries | "My native land finds its map" | New Frontiers 10 (1964-1965) 53. |
| Cleaning Lady | "Her coat is vague as fog but she herself" | Anglo-American Studies 3.2 (1983) 250. |
| Cleaning the Barn | "We put it off, not having to prove" | The Small Farm (Oct. 1976-March 1977) 12. |
| Close Call | "It was anger's shadow dimmed the room" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 16. |
| Close the Accounts | "The putting away time shows up" | Commonweal (15 Oct. 1965) 57. |
| Cloud over the Sun | "It's a surprise to find you" | Chicago Tribune Magazine (1 Oct. 1972) 17. |
| Clover Swaths | "My eyes are cloudy with death." | Poetry 40 (Aug. 1932) 249. |
| Cock Pheasant | "The pool of morning lay cool" | Crazy Horse 10 (March 1972) 13. |
| Cold Snap | "The winter night in your face" | Kansas City Magazine (1965) 28. |
| Cold's Verdict | "Anger wraps me in a mantle of yellow" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 50. |
| Come Back, Come Back | "You emptied the house" | Windless Orchard II (Autumn 1972) 38. |
| Come On, Let's Go | "Wake up, dope head, wake up," | KPFA Folio 1 (Feb. 1970) 33. |
| Comfort in an Old Tune | "The fields echo an old tune" | Pebble: A Magazine of Poetry (Summer 1971). |
| Comfort in Small Things | "I saw them, a glanceful," | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 493. |
| Common Ground | "Two neighbors lived across a road" | Kansas City Magazine (1965) 28. |
| Con Man | "The gifts I buy and offer you, my dear," | Wormwood Review 12 (Oct. 1972) 42. |
| Conservative | "The wilderness sleeps in seed and furrow" | Today 21 (Jan. 1966) 13. |
| Consider a Poem | "If I speak to explain myself" | Stone Country 7.1 (Feb. 1980) 16. |
| Construction | "The hammer voices went on an on" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 62. |