Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Fallen Sign | "There comes a time when" | Anglo-American Studies 3.2 (1983) 251-2. |
| False Warning | "The meadow has lost its features and the grove" | Poetry (56 Aug. 1940) 261. |
| Farm on a Summer Night | "From a clear sky at night the starlight" | Country Men (1937) v. |
| Farmer to His Son | ||
| Farmhand | "A mule with fork and shovel breeds no honey" | Prairie Schooner (Spring 1960) 54. |
| Father | "Nailheads broke off with the sound" | Wascana Review 2 (Spring 1976) 31. |
| Fear of Play for Keeps | "It's just for the program," | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 27. |
| Fear of Renewal | "Snow rotted at the sun's touch," | Chicago Tribune Magazine (1 Dec. 1968) 16. |
| First Signs | "Today the wind trudged in from the south" | Instructor 69 (Feb. 1960) 43. |
| First Snow | "The road and yard are full of dust" | Midland (Aug. 1926) 239. |
| Flight and Return | "The locked house next door" | Great Lakes Review 4 (Summer 1977) 62. |
| Flowers Would Be Better | "My wife calls me to see her garden." | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 34. |
| Fog | "Waves of the sea's ghost" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 66. |
| For A Neighbor Woman | "Early this morning" | Man and His Field. Denver: Alan Swallow. 1951. 28. |
| For God's Sake | "Why don't you clean up your place," | Penny Poems From Midwestern University (31 Jan. 1965) 1. |
| Forecast | "I hang a chart for prophecy" | New York Times (2 Aug. 1972) 36 col. 4. |
| Forewarned | "Now when the breath of frost has chilled" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 42. |
| Forked Road | "It's hard to decide sometimes" | Wascana Review 11 (Spring 1976) 32. |
| Forsythia | "You said, take a few dry" | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 406. |
| Fourth of July | "Early in the morning" | The Complete Poems of James Hearst. Ed. Scott Cawelti. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. 495. |
| Fourth of July at Aspen | "The color-striped day" | South Dakota Review 6 (Spring 1968) 50. |
| Free Man | "Hans Karen and debt were old friends until 1932" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 25. |
| Frost | "Though nothing came that could be heard" | Poetry 36 (Summer 1930) 320. |
| Frustrations | "Thoughts run like mice" | Virginia Quarterly Review 46 (Autumn 1970) 594. |
| Games Are Never Free | "The city park still draws children" | Iowa Arts Council Newsletter 1 (June 1968) 1. |