Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Hostility to Order | "Today the sun's eye" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 65. |
| Housebroken | "The year has turned," | Wascana Review 15.1 (Spring 1980) 32. |
| How Good is Good Enough | "He must have read whatever signs" | Poetry Now 6.4 Issue 34(1982) 37. |
| How Many Shadows Has a Man | "The dog looked into the water" | Country Men (1943) 59. |
| I Set My Chair | "I set my chair on the driveway" | Proved by Trial. Juniper Press: La Crosse, WI. 1977. 25. |
| I'm a Christian but . . . | "It gets pretty thick when" | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 496. |
| Important Question | "I didn't come here" | Voyages to the Inland Sea II 51. |
| Improve the View | "Why don't you decorate" | Nebraska Review (May 1981) 14. |
| Impudence | "Rowdy winter wind," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 52. |
| In April | "This I saw on an April day:" | Midland (August 1926) 238. |
| In Doubt | "Perhaps the fields are doubtful too in spring" | Midwest Quarterly 6 (Spring 1965) 292. |
| Inquiry | "Now catch your breath and hear the softly rounded" | Poetry 47 (November 1935) 69. |
| Instead of Honey | "Let's get to work, time may be short with us," | Poetry Now 3 (1976) 22. |
| Intruder | "The morning flowered in" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 65. |
| Invocation | "Come, you farmers, let us sing together" | American Prefaces 1 (Summer 1936) 150. |
| It Could Be Worse, Maybe | "My god, such a night!" | Slow Loris Reader 1 (1978) 69. |
| It Happened | "A rumpled bed," | Hawk and Whippoorwill 2 (Autumn 1974) 25. |
| It Might Be True | "When we kids complained about" | The English Journal 69.9 (December 1980) 65. |
| It Might Save Us | "What they had in common" | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 496. |
| It Never Went Away | "In daytime the cellar seemed safe," | New River Review 2 (1977) 58. |
| It Was Like This | "It was neither the Herod in me" | Commonweal (14 July 1967) 445. |
| Judgement by Spring Rain | "Some snarl faced poet" | Yankee Magazine (April 1973) 192. |
| Karma | "Still, cries of hunting shake the grove" | DePaul Literary Magazine (Spring 1965) 8. |
| Keep the Storm Outside | "Rain patters on my roof" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 33. |
| Kelly's Woods | "Kelly’s Woods—our picnic grounds" | Time Like a Furrow: Essays. Ames, IA: Iowa State Historical Department. 1981. xi-xii. |