Midsummer’s Eve

Looking for some words to celebrate midsummer, I found this lovely extract which casts a magic spell…

“Out of this wood do not desire to go:
Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.
I am a spirit of no common rate;
The summer still doth tend upon my state;
And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;
I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee,
And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep.”

Titania, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Photo © Colin Woolf

18 Comments

justbod

June 20, 2015 at 11:26 am

Beautiful! Love ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ – thank you 🙂

Jo Woolf

June 20, 2015 at 12:06 pm

Thanks, Justbod! I love it too – I’d forgotten how magical it is. 🙂

Norma Dowling

June 20, 2015 at 12:53 pm

Thanks, Jo; if only it were warm enough to sleep out in a wood!

Jo Woolf

June 20, 2015 at 1:32 pm

Haha, only in our dreams, Norma! 🙂

Pat

June 20, 2015 at 1:23 pm

A delightful passage! Thank you for bringing that to mind!

Jo Woolf

June 20, 2015 at 1:42 pm

Glad you enjoyed it, Pat! Spreading some midsummer magic! 🙂

http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

June 20, 2015 at 3:32 pm

What a treat, both words and picture

Jo Woolf

June 21, 2015 at 7:51 am

Thank you, Viv! 🙂

christinelaennec

June 20, 2015 at 4:59 pm

That is lovely, thank you! Beautiful photo as well.

Jo Woolf

June 21, 2015 at 7:51 am

Glad you enjoyed it, Christine! Those lovely stitchwort flowers were photographed in Taynish woods last week.

davidoakesimages

June 21, 2015 at 8:27 am

Dis some one say …sleeping in the woods!? Current summer weather I would say forget it (-: Maybe now we are past the half way point in the year summer will arrive….I hope so.

Jo Woolf

June 21, 2015 at 8:35 am

I hope so too! I am following someone on Twitter who is camping wild for a year – she’s had some rough weather so far!