| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Red Rooster |
| | | Hilda Conkling |
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| RED rooster in your gray coop, | |
| O stately creature with tail-feathers red and blue, | |
| Yellow and black, | |
| You have a comb gay as a parade | |
| On your head: | 5 |
| You have pearl trinkets | |
| On your feet: | |
| The short feathers smooth along your back | |
| Are the dark color of wet rocks, | |
| Or the rippled green of ships | 10 |
| When I look at their sides through water. | |
| I don’t know how you happened to be made | |
| So proud, so foolish, | |
| Wearing your coat of many colors, | |
| Shouting all day long your crooked words, | 15 |
| Loud … sharp … not beautiful! | |
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