Rivers of Gold is a short, tender memory of the moment the speaker first fell for someone. It opens with an image of fading embers that still "remember the fire," and that sets up the whole idea: something may have cooled, but the feeling hasn't vanished. The speaker goes on to recall soft summer air, the thought of wildflowers, and the instant a pair of green eyes smiled at them.
The memory is full of warmth and gentleness. Words like "serene" appear twice, which suggests the speaker found real calm in this person, not just excitement. The closing image, golden hair spilling down the shoulders like rivers, turns the beloved into something almost like a landscape. The trailing ellipsis lets the poem drift off rather than end firmly, as if the speaker is lost in the picture. Judging by the embers, the love may belong to the past, which gives the mood a quiet, nostalgic ache alongside the glow.