Ocupation: Poet
Life: 1564 - April 23, 1616
Birthday: 1564
Death: April 23
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.
source: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161
topic: Flower, Purple, White, Mid Summer Nights Dream, Midsummer Night's Dream, Midsummer Nights Dream, Midsummer, Pansies