"Where, here and there, on sandy beaches A milky-bell'd amaryllis blew."

"When heaven's high vault condensing clouds deform, Fair Amaryllis flies the incumbent storm, Seeks with unsteady step…"

"Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thank…"

"When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the mead…"

"The entire way from Pila to Bhakra I came down a riverbed that had some running water and oleander flowers like peach…"

"Hot oleanders in a rosy vale Search’d by the lamping fly, whose little spark Went in and out, like passion’s bashful …"

"The Marigold observes the Sun More than my subjects me have done."

"Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheath’d their light, And canopied in darkness sweetly lay, Till they might open to ado…"

"So shuts the marigold her leaves At the departure of the sun;"

"The Sun doth make the marigold to flourish, The Sun’s departure makes it droop again; So golden Mary’s sight my joys …"