Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort ascending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| There Are Still Some Mysteries | "My young neighbor attended an" | Poetry Now 5.4 Issue 28 (1980) 34. |
| Theology | "When we were boys a man my father hired" | Midland (June 1927) 183. |
| The Young Old-Timer | "His hands seek each other under his overall bib" | Wallace's Farmer. 24 September 1938. p. 6. |
| The Windmill | "Time I greased the windmill," | Texas Review 2.1 (Spring 1981) 94-5. |
| The Will to Possess | "Shoemaker had some Bokhara seed to sell," | Chowder Review (May 1977) 25. |
| The Well | "By accident one day I found a well," | Iowa English Yearbook (Fall 1961) 5. |
| The Weed Cutter | "Earth soaked by a thunderstorm" | Poet and Critic 13.2 (1982) 6. |
| The Way the Light Shines | "The shrill singing of cicada" | Poetry Now 5.3 Issue 27 (1980) 6. |
| The Way It Is | "Prepare the ground, I told her," | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 64. |
| The Waster | "The stalks still stand erect and the tassels wave," | Kansas City Magazine (1961) 61. |
| The Wasted Corner | "She was a higglety, pigglety hen" | Wormwood Review 3 (1963) 12. |
| The Warning Cry | "The warning cry of wild geese from cold and cloudy roads" | Country Men (1937) xxxv. |
| The Wall | "A door builds a strange wall" | Kansas Quarterly 8.3/4 (Summer-Autumn 1976) 102. |
| The Visitor | "In the heat of the afternoon" | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
| The Visit | "The little world of the garden bare," | Wormwood Review 2.2 Issue 6 (1962) 1. |
| The Vine | "His wife and young son in his heart, the future riding his shoulders" | The Sun at Noon 14. |
| The Unprotected | "The sun at noon" | America (26 Sept. 1959) 768. |
| The Trimmed Bush | "Grouch, she said, you are" | North American Review 269.4 (Dec. 1984) 43. |
| The Tide | "Today is our anniversary" | Pendragon 3.1 (1984) 18. |
| The Thief | "The fists of the summer sun" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 52. |
| The Test | "This guy walking down the street" | Wormwood Review 8 (1968) 12. |
| The Tarnish | "The afternoon failed of its promise and the sun" | Wormwood Review 2.2 Issue 6 (1962) 2. |
| The Supplicant | "I try, when I awake, on a bright Sunday morning" | Music for Seven Poems (1958). |
| The Supermarket's Secret Machine | "Today my wife sent me to the" | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 503. |
| The Sun at Noon | "No country leads so softly to nowhere" | Poetry 56 (Aug. 1940) 260. |