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151 |
Each Spring |
When ducks print signs in the mud for the farmer to read, |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
spring, hope |
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152 |
Each to Its Own Purpose |
They said, don't use words |
Yankee Magazine |
1975 |
poetry, language |
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Proved by Trial 13, Snake in the Strawberries 94. |
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153 |
Echoes of Memory |
A birthday card from you today |
A Country Man |
1993 |
love, longing |
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A Country Man 23. |
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154 |
Eighty Birthdays |
This cake, a snow-topped hill, |
Yankee Magazine |
1977 |
aging, longing |
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Snake in the Strawberries 84. |
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155 |
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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156 |
Emeritus |
He cleans out the file and crams |
National Retired Teachers Association Journal |
1977 |
retirement, time |
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157 |
Emerson's Page |
His Neighbors scratched |
Educational Leadership |
1959 |
nature, wisdom |
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Limited View 28, Shaken by Leaf-fall 50, Landmark and Other Poems 29. |
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158 |
End of a Landmark |
Power from a copper wire |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
destruction, disappointment |
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159 |
End of April |
A grey sky roofs the morning |
Yankee Magazine |
1968 |
weather, color |
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Snake in the Strawberries 47. |
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160 |
End of the Game |
Two little boys dusty with pollen |
Lake Superior Review |
1977 |
childhood, play |
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Snake in the Strawberries 96. |
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161 |
Enjoy Your Release |
You better grow the |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
death, happiness |
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Planting Red Geraniums 26 |
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162 |
Escape Artist |
Well, well, so this is the way |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
argument, performance |
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163 |
Espaliered on a Wailing Wall |
Farmland lacks immunity to the |
Wascana Review |
1980 |
nature, cities |
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164 |
Evening |
Be quiet, Heart, the sun goes down |
Country Men |
1938 |
sunset, peacefulness |
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Country Men (1938) 62, (1943) 70, Man and His Field 71. |
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165 |
Evergreen Transformations |
‘‘Who knocks on my door?’’ asks History |
The Alumnus |
1976 |
education, truth |
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166 |
Every Teacher Has One |
This morning I cleaned out |
English Journal |
1971 |
memory, secrecy |
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167 |
Expression of a Homeplace |
If I close one eye |
A Country Man |
1993 |
perceptions, birds |
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A Country Man 35. |
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168 |
Fact |
I knew a man once who gave up the ghost |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
life, suicide |
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Man and His Field 39, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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169 |
Facts |
I do not read portents, |
Chowder Review |
1976 |
superstition, work |
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Proved by Trial 9, Snake in the Strawberries 88. |
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170 |
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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171 |
Fallen Sign |
There comes a time when |
Anglo-American Studies |
1983 |
farming, aging |
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A Country Man 18. |
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172 |
False Warning |
The meadow has lost its features and the grove |
Poetry |
1940 |
wilderness, winter |
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A Single Focus 21. |
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173 |
Farm on a Summer Night |
From a clear sky at night the starlight |
Country Men |
1937 |
faith, religion |
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Country Men (1937) v, (1938) 21, (1943) 31. |
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174 |
Farmer to His Son |
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175 |
Farmhand |
A mule with fork and shovel breeds no honey |
Prairie Schooner |
1960 |
work, resentment |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 77. |
Limited View 5. |
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