Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort ascending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| To Shape Our Decisions | "The question is" | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 505. |
| To Run or Sit | "Today, he said, the sky bends down" | The Back Door 1 (1970) 40. |
| To Build a Fence | "We stretch a barbed wire from corner post" | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 6. |
| To An Old Sow | "Whoa there, you crazy sow, where do you think you're going?" | Limited View. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1962. 29. |
| To a Loquacious Friend | "Either you bleat like a moth-eaten" | Iowa State Liquor Store 2 (Winter 1970) 22. |
| Tired of Earth | "Wind bites dust from the furrows" | Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts 5 (Winter 1962-63) 93. |
| Time's Laggard | "The house of summer closed its doors." | The Saturday Evening Post (15 Oct. 1960) 125. |
| Time's Flail | "A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 34. |
| Time to Go In | "You poke the fire in the fireplace," | America 149.2 (9-16 July 1983) 22. |
| Time to Cross Over | "A black man with his family" | Slackwater Review 4.1 (1981) 29. |
| Time to Act | "At last the revelation, a brisk wind peels" | Kansas City Magazine (1959) 51. |
| Time of Contrition | "Today I saw the gossip pack" | Denver Post (11 Oct. 1959). |
| Time Like a Hand | "The hardware merchant reaches back for the past" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 23. |
| Three Sides to a Farm | "So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 29. |
| Three Old Horses | "Returning to the gate at close of day" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 24. |
| Threat of Weather | "We know we can outlast the weather" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 57. |
| Threat of Violence | "Icicles dripped in the" | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 504. |
| Thought of Bluebells | "Along the banks" | Wascana Review 6 (1971) 15. |
| This Is the Way It Seems | "The first of the month the mail" | The English Journal 71.1 (January 1982) 69. |
| This Is How They Do It | ""I own this farm," Henry Jensen" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 24. |
| They Never Came | "Our town prepared for invasion" | Colorado Quarterly 27 (Autumn 1978) 24. |
| There Must Be Somewhere to Go | "Wait for me, wait for me," | North Country (Spring 1977) 21. |
| There is Time to Be Cheerful | "On the back steps" | Skylark 10 (1981) 65. |
| There is a Line Drawn | "A buyer of discards" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 51. |
| There Are Those Who Say This | "I lit the bonfire," | Chariton Review 9.1 (April 1983) 16-7. |