Love in Idleness
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Love-in-idleness is one of the many old names for the pansy. Shakespeare uses the name in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 2, Scene 1) where Oberon (Fairy King) takes revenge on Titania (Fairy Queen) and sends Puck to retrieve the flower:
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.
Love in Idleness can also refer to
- Canto IV, Book II of the long poem The Angel in the House (1854) by Coventry Patmore [1]
- an 1877 novel by Ellen Olney Kirk
- an 1891 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (aka Love Votaries) [2], [3]
- a 1998 song by Paul McCandless, Glen Moore and Ralph Towner
- a 2001 novel by Charlotte Mendelson
- a 2003 novel by Amanda Craig.
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