Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.

Title Sort ascending | First Line | Original Citation |
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So Much Change | "Remember how the book would not" | Anglo-American Studies 3.2 (1983) 250-1. |
Snake in the Strawberries | "This lovely girl dressed in lambswool thoughts" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 30. |
Small Thorns | "The odor from garbage my neighbor" | Wormwood Review 19 (1979) 33. |
Silver Maples | "Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies" | Wallace's Farmer, 22 April 1939, pp. 15. |
Signed by Your Kiss | "We came too late, we found the trees" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 55. |
Sign-Directed | "I was born under the sign" | Poetry Now 6.6 Issue 36 (1982) 11. |
Sight by Blindfold | "I walked up the knoll" | View Magazine (27 Jan. 1974). |
Shy Breeder | "The heifer is in heat but" | Poetry Now 6.1 (1981) 16. |
Shove It, Brother, Shove It | "From bedroom to bathroom to" | North American Review 264 (Summer 1979) 26. |
Shortcut | "A shortcut, so we said, a different road," | Colorado Quarterly 14 (Summer 1965) 25. |
Short Cut | "A short cut, so we said, a different road, " | Shaken by Leaf-fall |
Shelter under Glass | "The seventh grade came to visit" | New Letters 49.2 (Winter 1982-83). 70. |
Sharers | "You grieved so for a rosebush" | Ladies Home Journal (Nov. 1971) 191. |
Shaped by Names | "You must exist somewhere" | Canadian Forum 57 (Oct. 1977) 21. |
Shake in Vain | "Shake in vain the orchard trees" | Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst. Final Thursday Press, 2017. 17. |
Seventy Times Seven | "Let the rain discover" | Country Men (1937) xxv, (1938) 45, (1943) 52. |
Seventh Grade | "The scrubbed question marks" | The English Journal 60.4 (April 1971) 454. |
Sense of Order | "On the farm we had no tunnels" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 53. |
Self-Portrait | "The mirror lacks depth," | Virginia Quarterly Review 51 (Winter 1975) 71. |
Seeding | "The morning sun looks in on me" | Midland (March-April 1932) 52. |
See How the Wind | "See how the wind repeats itself" | America (2 Jan. 1960) 394. |
Second Look | "Lord, let me be patient without rancor" | Eventorium Muse (Winter 1965) 33. |
Scatter the Petals | "She sleeps as if the mouth of buds," | American Friend (30 Oct. 1958) 346. |
Sauce for the Gander | "The last person to bed starts the" | Cedar Arts Forum (May 1978) 2. |
Saturday Morning | "This morning wrapped in my indolence" | The Smith 145. |