Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort ascending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Sap's Rise | "The creek retreats from flood rage" | see "The Face of Things" |
| Same Thing but Different | "The paperboy slammed the screen door" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 69. |
| Sadness Weeps | "In my day hate clouds skies" | America (5 Oct. 1968) 294. |
| Sad, the Way It Is | "Stay, stay, pussy willow pussies," | Green Magazine (Spring 1975) 24. |
| Ruffle the Pages | "An oak tree spread shade," | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 52. |
| Routine Keeps Me | "I make water in the morning" | KPFA Folio 1 (Feb. 1970) 33. |
| Routine | "The boy drowning under waves" | Aspen Times (3 Aug. 1972) |
| Robin In The Straw | "A robin scratches right and left" | Midland (March-April 1932) 52. |
| Revival | "The anxious hours numb me" | Reporter (30 Nov. 1967) 35. |
| Revelation | "Who ordained the flicker on my" | Christian Science Monitor (10 July 1973) 2. |
| Retirement Time Is the Time to Retire | "About twilight, swallows stitched" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 5. |
| Retirement Blues | "Neither anger nor reproach will" | Poetry View 4 (Oct. 1979) 11. |
| Retired | "He sulks in his garden," | Hika 29 (Fall 1966) 5. |
| Responsibility of Being Young | "All I knew concerned my" | Barnwood 1.3 (Spring 1981). |
| Resort to Calm | "No protest, just the door's soft sigh," | Prairie Schooner 44 (Spring 1970) 42. |
| Resolution | "Strokes took off the big tree's top" | |
| Reprieve | "I too have gone" | Onward (Sep. 1964) 21. |
| Relief from Pressure | "The forecast said rain," | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 19. |
| Reflection in a Dimestore Window | "It’s not that men are never" | Poet Lore 66 (Summer 1971) 192. |
| Reflection | "I think I shall decide to stay" | Bookman 65 (May 1927) 268. |
| Reason to Get Up in the Morning | "All this chatter about" | Contact 2 6.39 (Fall 1984) 31. |
| Random Thoughts | "Our plan of life together" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 56. |
| Quiet Sunday | "The old dog sleeps on the porch." | Sparrow Magazine (April 1961) 19. |
| Queer People | "Queer people eat soup" | Erebus Rising 4 (1971). |
| Quarrel's Echo | "The front steps seemed not" | A Single Focus, 1967, pp. 40 |