176 |
The Hunter |
You cannot kill the white-tailed deer |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
hunting, persistence |
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A Single Focus 69, Snake in the Strawberries 43. |
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177 |
The Harvesters |
Bright was the stubble, the sun that day |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
death, work |
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Man and His Field 63. |
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178 |
The Hard Sell |
The spangles in his talk glitter |
The Denver Post Roundup |
1971 |
deception, money |
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179 |
The Happy Farmer |
This farm where I live |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
farming, poverty |
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180 |
The Hammer and the Rat |
The teetering carpenter sets his spike |
Country Men |
1943 |
distraction, inaction |
North American Review (1974) 33. |
Country Men (1943) 59. Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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181 |
The Groundhog |
Scooped from his winter nest |
Dry Leaves |
1975 |
faith, animals |
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Dry Leaves. |
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182 |
The Great Coincidence |
How strange that in the human flow, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
love, chance |
Heartland: Poets of the Midwest 80. |
Man and His Field 53. |
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183 |
The Grail |
The snow falls like flakes of light- |
Poetry |
1935 |
faith, religion |
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Country Men (1937) x, (1938) 30, (1943) 39, Man and His Field 42, Landmark and Other Poems 58. |
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184 |
The Gift for Love |
Underbrush, grasses, weeds, |
Eidolons |
1972 |
wilderness, order |
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185 |
The Gardener |
When in the sun and armed with shears |
English Journal |
1971 |
gardening, fall |
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186 |
The Forest |
Within the forest of my heart |
Country Men |
1937 |
love, reflection |
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Country Men (1937) xx, (1938) 41, (1943) 48, Man and His Field 55. |
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187 |
The Flower |
The afternoon bent over |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
love, flowers |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 15. |
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188 |
The Fence Row |
A ripple of ground still show the line where |
Poetry |
1942 |
division, memory |
Mid-Country. Ed. Lowry C. Wimberly. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (1945) 467. |
The Sun at Noon 38, Man and His Field 50, Snake in the Strawberries 20. |
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189 |
The Farmstead |
The farmstead lies in the angle |
Apple |
1970 |
farming, home |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 22. |
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190 |
The Farmer's Season |
Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season, |
America |
1965 |
spring, farming |
"Book Review," Wallace's Farmer (28 Oct. 1967) 3, North American Review (1974) 34, Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 5. |
A Single Focus 3, Landmark and Other's Poems 56. |
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191 |
The Farmer's Bride |
Dry weeds wait for snow, |
Commonweal |
1971 |
winter, chores |
Voyages to Inland Sea, II 46. |
Snake in the Strawberries 56. |
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192 |
The Fact Is... |
A duck at a worm |
Poetry View |
1979 |
nature, death |
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193 |
The Face of Things |
The creek retreats from flood rage |
Virginia Quarterly Review |
1970 |
spring, planting |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 46, Landmark and Other Poems 27 (as "Sap's Rise"). |
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194 |
The Experiment |
You came and found me when the stars were blowing |
Midland |
1926 |
fire |
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Country Men (1937) xxii, (1938) 43, (1943) 50, Man and His Field 35. |
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195 |
The Enemy |
The girl who now switches |
Westerly Review |
1977 |
desire, hunting |
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Snake in the Strawberries 92. |
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196 |
The Debtor |
These leaden days when the sky is overcast |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
farming, debt |
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Man and His Field 61, Landmark and Other Poems 39. |
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197 |
The Deacon Goes for His Sunday Paper |
Good morning, good morning, it is a good morning |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
happiness, disappointment |
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Man and His Field 67. |
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198 |
The Day of the Hawk |
I went to the city |
Aspen Times |
1970 |
loneliness, nature |
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199 |
The Dainty Lily Bell |
She’s liberated, you know, |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
sex, gender |
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Planting Red Geraniums 24 |
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200 |
The Cure |
The bush at the corner of the house |
Sandlapper |
1977 |
homesickness, flowers |
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