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.