12 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday – Love-in-idleness”
Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
Pretty photo!
Not bad for an arable weed – it’s a welcome addition to my garden where is self-seeds profusely.
I love all pansies, they have such expressive faces! Not bad for a weed, as you say….
This lot are my “weed of the month” but I haven’t the heart to pull them out. I may regret this next year!
I saw these on the machair last week – so lovely. (I actually knocked on your door but no-one was home!)
Never heard it called that before…
“Yet mark’d 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.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew’d thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
It is a little confusing as our Viola tricolour is more often yellow than purple.
Hello Freda, I’m so sorry I missed you. The machair in flower is particularly glorious this year.
Ah of course – not that it would have sprung to mind even if my mind had been on the ball as it was not a play I studied 😉
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Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
Pretty photo!
Not bad for an arable weed – it’s a welcome addition to my garden where is self-seeds profusely.
I love all pansies, they have such expressive faces! Not bad for a weed, as you say….
This lot are my “weed of the month” but I haven’t the heart to pull them out. I may regret this next year!
I saw these on the machair last week – so lovely. (I actually knocked on your door but no-one was home!)
Never heard it called that before…
“Yet mark’d 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.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew’d thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
It is a little confusing as our Viola tricolour is more often yellow than purple.
Hello Freda, I’m so sorry I missed you. The machair in flower is particularly glorious this year.
Ah of course – not that it would have sprung to mind even if my mind had been on the ball as it was not a play I studied 😉
The first one I read and still a great favourite.
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