Water-Lilies
They float ethereal, unearthly white
Upon the bosom of the darkling mere,
Raying the dusk with slumbrous silver light–
Eidolons of lost moons erst mirrored there.
Salvias
Wooing the wind’s wild caresses,
Courting the sun’s fierce flame–
Wantons in cardinal dresses
Flaunting their scarlet shame.
Yellow Jessamine
Like little yellow stars that, fallen down,
Hang pendulous, enmeshed among the boughs,
Mild golden radiances they gem the crown
Fair Summer sets upon her beauteous brows.
Sunflowers
They bloom in lowly places–
Unmeet for fairer beds–
Like swarthy Ethiop faces
With yellow-turbaned heads.
The Rose
All Orient odors, spikenard, balm and myrrh,
Perfumes of Araby and farthest Ind–
Sweet incense from the chaliced heart of her
She pours upon the feet of every wind.
(Leigh Gordon Giltner)
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