251 |
Sounds around a Man |
It's late, late in the year |
Wisconsin Review |
1970 |
sound, identity |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II 45. |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall 38, Snake in the Strawberries 57. |
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252 |
Sooner or Later |
My roots search for water |
Yankee Magazine |
1980 |
trouble, nature |
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253 |
Song |
In now time beg the sun hold still |
Poet Lore |
1977 |
time, impermanence |
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254 |
Something Not Tamed in Us |
Early this winter morning |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
birds, charity |
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Snake in the Strawberries 4. |
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255 |
Something is Given |
Something is given |
Stone Country |
1980 |
poetry, farming |
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256 |
So Much Change |
Remember how the book would not |
Anglo-American Studies |
1983 |
love, loss |
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A Country Man 21. |
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257 |
Snake in the Strawberries |
This lovely girl dressed in lambswool thoughts |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
disaster, innocence |
University of Kansas Review 11 (Autumn 1944) 45, Midwest 7 (Spring 1964) vi, Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 77, Interpreting Literature. 4th Ed. K. L. Knickerbocker and H. W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. 268, Interpreting Li |
Man and His Field 64, Shaken by Leaf-fall 72, Snake in the Strawberries 57, The Good Earth 54. |
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258 |
Small Thorns |
The odor from garbage my neighbor |
Wormwood Review |
1979 |
neighbors, annoyance |
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259 |
Silver Maples |
Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies |
Wallace's Farmer |
1939 |
farming, nature |
North American Review |
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260 |
Signed by Your Kiss |
We came too late, we found the trees |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
nature, love |
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A Single Focus 55. |
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261 |
Sign-Directed |
I was born under the sign |
Poetry Now |
1982 |
birth, superstition |
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262 |
Sight by Blindfold |
I walked up the knoll |
View Magazine |
1974 |
death, love |
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263 |
Shy Breeder |
The heifer is in heat but |
Poetry Now |
1981 |
animals, sex |
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264 |
Shove It, Brother, Shove It |
From bedroom to bathroom to |
North American Review |
1979 |
optimism, disability |
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265 |
Shortcut |
A shortcut, so we said, a different road, |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
countryside, lost |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 35. |
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266 |
Short Cut |
A short cut, so we said, a different road, |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
roaming, countryside |
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267 |
Shelter under Glass |
The seventh grade came to visit |
New Letters |
1982 |
children, appreciation |
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268 |
Sharers |
You grieved so for a rosebush |
Ladies Home Journal |
1971 |
flowers, loss |
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Snake in the Strawberries 52. |
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269 |
Shaped by Names |
You must exist somewhere |
Canadian Forum |
1977 |
language, meaning |
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Snake in the Strawberries 95. |
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270 |
Shake in Vain |
Shake in vain the orchard trees |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
trees, longing |
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Planting Red Geraniums 17 |
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271 |
Seventy Times Seven |
Let the rain discover |
Country Men |
1937 |
forgiveness, loneliness |
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272 |
Seventh Grade |
The scrubbed question marks |
English Journal |
1971 |
children, school |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
Planting Red Geraniums 43. |
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273 |
Sense of Order |
On the farm we had no tunnels |
A Country Man |
1993 |
understanding, purpose |
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A Country Man 53. |
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274 |
Self-Portrait |
The mirror lacks depth, |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1975 |
reflection, aging |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 53, Snake in the Strawberries 66. |
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275 |
Seeding |
The morning sun looks in on me |
Midland |
1932 |
farming, planting |
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Country Men (1937) xxii, (1938) 44 (1943) 51, Man and His Field 45. |
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