| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919. |
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| Charles Erskine Scott Wood. 1852– |
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| 9. Sunrise |
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| THE lean coyote, prowler of the night, | |
| Slips to his rocky fastnesses, | |
| Jack-rabbits noiselessly shuttle among the sage-brush, | |
| And from the castellated cliffs, | |
| Rock-ravens launch their proud black sails upon the day. | 5 |
| The wild horses troop back to their pastures. | |
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| The poplar-trees watch beside the irrigation-ditches. | |
| Orioles, whose nests sway in the cotton-wood trees by the ditch-side, begin to twitter. | |
| All shy things, breathless, watch | |
| The thin white skirts of dawn, | 10 |
| The dancer of the sky, | |
| Who trips daintily down the mountain-side | |
| Emptying her crystal chalice.... | |
| And a red-bird, dipped in sunrise, cracks from a poplar's top | |
| His exultant whip above a silver world. | 15 |
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