Literature
Titania's Promise
(a response to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Malicious sprite, darkly dancing,
shadow cast under a quicksilver moon.
Oh yes, these shadows have offended.
Spiky foxgloves stand and hiss.
Whispering falsehood and deceit
from full, rainbow-spotted throats.
Beware, beware. Capricious Robin
plays with truth, and breaks his toys.
He knows his herbs and potions
houndstongue and hellebore,
wolfsbane and rosemary,
the bitter bite of wormwood
He serves his lord and master well.
He made me a fool before my court,
My ladies laughed behind their hands.
He bathed my eyes in purple poison
made me love unwillingl