Poem text:

Orange gleams athwart a crimson soul 
Lambent flames; purple passion lurks 
In your dusk eyes. 
Red mouth; flower soft, 
Your soul leaps up—and flashes
Star-like, white, flame-hot.
Curving arms, encircling a world of love,
You! Stirring the depths of passionate desire!

-- Alice Dunbar-Nelson

from a handwritten manuscript dated 1921.

Links:

Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, edited by Gloria T. Hull

The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, edited by Gloria T. Hull