Poetry
All of James Hearst's poetry works are included in this list.
| Title Sort descending | First Line | Original Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Giant Fear | "The day overwhelmed him with its size," | Cloud Marauder (Sept. 1968). |
| Gift for All | "The miracles of creation" | Skylark (1981). |
| Glorify Our Passage | "It waits on the hill" | Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst. Final Thursday Press, 2017. 27. |
| Good Friday | "My neighbor plants potatoes on Good Friday" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 11. |
| Goodbye, Mrs. O'Flynn | "I am not carrying on with Mrs. O'Flynn" | A Country Man. Cumberland, IA: Pterodactyl Press. 1993. 55. |
| Grandfather and the Evangelist | "A tent with a platform and with folding chairs," | Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 6. |
| Grandfather's Farm | "The worn scythe hangs in the box-elder tree," | The Saturday Evening Post (29 Aug. 1959) 43. |
| Growing Up | "It is time to leave the grove," | Chowder Review (May 1977) 24. |
| Guarding the Fire | "The wind throws snow at the window" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 34. |
| Hang On to the Grab Bar | "Caught in the revolving door" | Kansas Quarterly 11 (Summer 1979) 71. |
| Hard Way to Learn | "A trickle of water from" | Poetry 134.1 (April 1979) 17. |
| Hard Words | "Hard words married to" | Southwest Review 54 (Autumn 1969) 397. |
| Hardened Arteries | "When the office screwed a few bucks" | Poetry Now 2 (Sept. 1975) 31. |
| Harvest Claim | "The clover field in bloom seemed innocent" | Kansas City Star (18 June 1957). |
| Hen Pheasant | "Dusk fills the grove and seeps" | Poetry 106 (Sept. 1965) 405. |
| Here and There | "It's true the days are longer," | Snake in the Strawberries. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1979. 47. |
| High Winds and Low Pressures | "The sun backs through a cloud," | America (22 Feb. 1975) 134. |
| His Daily Pack | "Come here and let me tell you about this man" | Limited View. Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press. 15. |
| Hog Economy | "The little pig stuck his nose in the trough" | America (3 July 1965) 20. |
| Home | "The house sags like it’s grieving, paint" | Hawk and Whippoorwill 4 (Autumn 1963) 31. |
| Home Place | "This is the way it was:" | The Congregationalist 125 (April 1965) 6. |
| Home Work | "Today is cleaning day in the pens" | The Ghent Quarterly (Summer 1975) 19. |
| Homecoming | "So let's knock off for the day, I said," | Shaken by Leaf-Fall. Ann Arbor, MI: Kylix Press. 1976. 39. |
| Homesickness | "Marie Summers took a course in Commercial" | The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 28. |
| Hope Goes Whoosh! | "We just could not believe our luck." | Focus 15.95 (1984) 20. |