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226 |
Surprise [2] |
Some friends of ours decided to |
Christian Science Monitor |
1977 |
farming, unexpected |
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227 |
Surprise [1] |
You seemed brave but lost in the ambush of clover, |
The Humanist |
1957 |
love, betrayal |
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Limited View 22, Landmark and Other Poems 23. |
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228 |
Summer Rain |
I stayed in the field though the rain was |
Independent |
1927 |
rain, drought |
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Country Men (1937) xxxii, (1938) 54, (1943) 61. |
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229 |
Success |
When I come home from work at close of day |
Best Articles and Stories |
1958 |
farming, animals |
Poetry 92 (Aug. 1958) 299. |
Limited View 3, Landmark and Other Poems 52. |
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230 |
Subscription to Salvation |
What do you know, |
Wormwood Review |
1981 |
religion, solicitation |
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231 |
Stunted Root |
A season without rain, he saw the stalks |
Kansas Quarterly |
1971 |
sex, drought |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 63. |
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232 |
Stream and Tree |
The stream's promise |
Wascana Review |
1975 |
nature, suicide |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 70. |
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233 |
Stranger |
Following his father's footsteps |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
retirement, alienation |
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The Sun at Noon 26, Snake in the Strawberries 21. |
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234 |
Strange Things Happen |
I found a ball in the yard |
Yankee Magazine |
1984 |
memory, games |
North American Review 299.2 (Spring 2014) 27. |
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235 |
Stormbound |
Whipped by the blizzard I fled |
New York Times |
1970 |
birds, weather |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 20. |
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236 |
Storm Bound |
Whipped by the blizzard I fled |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
winter, birds |
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237 |
Stolid Farmer to His Son |
Choose your wife for straight legs and an honest tongue. |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
wisdom, knowledge |
North American Review (1974) 28. |
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238 |
Still Heard but Faintly |
What chime struck from the iron air |
Periodical of Art in Nebraska |
1976 |
winter, faith |
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239 |
Stepchild of Nature |
Open morning's door and listen |
NRTA Journal |
1980 |
nature, alienation |
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240 |
Statistics and Waterfalls |
The textbook lies on the |
Black and White |
1979 |
knowledge, imagination |
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241 |
Statement |
It doesn't matter what the critics say, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
poetry, critics |
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Man and His Field 19, Snake in the Strawberries 24, The Good Earth 56, Selected Poems 9. |
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242 |
Spring West of Town |
A man who lives inside my head |
Kernels |
1939 |
busyness, waiting |
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243 |
Spring Weather |
Just when the grass |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
weather, marriage |
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Planting Red Geraniums 31 |
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244 |
Spring Rites |
We celebrate the rites of spring |
New York Times |
1971 |
planting, ritual |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 49. |
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245 |
Spring Rain |
An early frost last fall |
Ladies Home Journal |
1968 |
fall, persistence |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 40, Landmark and Other Poems 55. |
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246 |
Spring On The Farm |
The mixed emotions which I hold this spring |
Canadian Poetry Magazine |
1957 |
animals, spring |
The MacDonald Farm Journal 20.3 (March 1959) 19, Wallace's Farmer (16 March 1963) 50. |
Limited View 30, Landmark and Other Poems 52. |
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247 |
Spring Lament |
The season has sounded its call to the farm's sleepy ears, |
Limited View |
1962 |
spring, loneliness |
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Landmark and Other Poems 53. |
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248 |
Spring Fever |
Sun touched I sit on a |
Cottonwood Review |
1968 |
spring, anticipation |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 27, Snake in the Strawberries 72. |
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249 |
Spring Barnyard |
Pigeons circle the wet glossy mud |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
animals, materiality |
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The Sun at Noon 37. |
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250 |
Sparrows in Spring |
The water falls drip.. drip.. drap |
Country Men |
1937 |
planting, nature |
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Country Men (1937) xiii, (1938) 33, (1943) 41. |
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