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" I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound. And maidens call it love-in-idleness. "
The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in Verse - Page 111
by Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 157 pages
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Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-night's Dream: Illustrated by a Comparison ...

Nicholas John Halpin - 1843 - 136 pages
...was once milk-white, but is now metamorphosed into purple; its pretty name is Love in idleness: and The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly doat Upon the next live creature that it sees. 2. For the particular place of its growth: it is there...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.* Fetch me that flower : the herb I showed thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck, r II put a girdle round...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.* Fetch me that flower: the herb I showed thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. PII put a girdle round...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.* Fetch me that flower: the herb I showed thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can sioim a league. Puck. I'll put a girdle round...
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Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...secret court history. And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.* Fetch me that flower: the herb I show'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck, ni put a girdle round...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.* Fetch me that flower: the herb I showed thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid,...Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. Tll put a girdle round...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.* Fetch me that flower : the herb I show'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dot Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb : and be thou here again, Ere the...
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Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...purple with love's wound, And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a girdle round...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...purple with love's wound. And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league. Puck. I'll put a girdle round...
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The Poetical Language of Flowers: Or, The Pilgrimage of Love

Thomas Miller - Flowers in literature - 1847 - 288 pages
...by Shakspere, and woven into his inimitable " Midsummer Night's Dream," wherein lie tells us how " The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make,...madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees." And who that has once read, can ever forget the pleasing confusion it makes amongst the lovers in the...
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