Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort ascending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| The Groundhog | "Scooped from his winter nest" | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
| The Great Coincidence | "How strange that in the human flow," | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 53. |
| The Grail | "The snow falls like flakes of light-" | Poetry 47 (Nov. 1935) 68. |
| The Gift for Love | "Underbrush, grasses, weeds," | Eidolons Valhalla I (Sept. 1972). |
| The Gardener | "When in the sun and armed with shears" | English Journal 60 (Nov 1971) 1079. |
| The Forest | "Within the forest of my heart" | Country Men (1937) xx. |
| The Flower | "The afternoon bent over" | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 15. |
| The Fence Row | "A ripple of ground still show the line where" | Poetry 60 (July 1942) 201. |
| The Farmstead | "The farmstead lies in the angle" | Apple 4 (Autumn 1970) 21. |
| The Farmer's Season | "Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season," | America 17 (April 1965) 550. |
| The Farmer's Bride | "Dry weeds wait for snow," | Commonweal (22 Oct. 1971) 85. |
| The Fact Is... | "A duck at a worm" | Poetry View (23 Sept. 1979) 14. |
| The Face of Things | "The creek retreats from flood rage" | Virginia Quarterly Review 46 (Autumn 1970) 595. |
| The Experiment | "You came and found me when the stars were blowing" | Midland (Aug. 1926) 237. |
| The Enemy | "The girl who now switches" | Westerly Review 2 (1977). |
| The Debtor | "These leaden days when the sky is overcast" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 61. |
| The Deacon Goes for His Sunday Paper | "Good morning, good morning, it is a good morning" | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 67. |
| The Day of the Hawk | "I went to the city" | Aspen Times (27 Aug. 1970) 13b. |
| The Dainty Lily Bell | "She’s liberated, you know," | Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst. Final Thursday Press, 2017. 24. |
| The Cure | "The bush at the corner of the house" | Sandlapper (Oct. 1977) 16. |
| The Cricket | "If the sparrows would stop" | Educational Leadership 17 (Oct. 1959) 15. |
| The Contract | "You may have my garden if you will give to me" | Midland (Aug. 1926) 239. |
| The Comfort of a Friend | "We have wandered as we wished" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 47. |
| The Chipmunk and I | "The chipmunk sits upright" | Chicago Tribune Magazine (3 Aug. 1969) Section 7 page 60. |
| The Change | "The same plowed field and" | A Single Focus. Iowa City: Prairie Press. 1967. 59. |