The Ponder Heart is a novella written by Eudora Welty and illustrated by Joe Krush, originally published in The New Yorker in 1953, and republished by Harcourt Brace in 1954.

The Peacocks, under the advice of district attorney Dorris Gladney, indict Daniel on murder charges.

[9] The Public Broadcasting Service also adapted the novella to a television film directed by Martha Coolidge as a part of the Masterpiece series in October 2001.

[10] The Ponder Heart was also adapted as an opera by Alice Parker, which premiered in Jackson, Mississippi in 1982.

[12] Charles Poore of the New York Times called the novel "a wonderful tragicomedy of good intentions in a durably sinful world".