To maintain it in its vestal candor and proud sincerity is not always an easy task in a land where every careless student and idle nobleman is eager to tumble it with his fingers or to pin among its frills the blossom named love-in-idleness: Mimi Pinson has to wear her cap very close to her wise little head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

Do you think that maidens 'eyes are no longer touched with the juice of love-in-idleness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyperion] Reference

Maidens call it love-in-idleness, 58. caught by glare, like moths, 540. fair are commonly fortunate, 33. smiles of other, 677. withering on the stalk, 477.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

"It would serve you right," said she, truculently, "if some one were to rub your eyes with love-in-idleness, to make you dote upon the next live creature that you see.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Prospero] Reference

I remember also that I ate at table opposite a pretty girl, with a wanton's heart, who prattled to me, because I was an Englishman, as though no war had come to make a mockery of love-in-idleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the War] Reference

And the flower is called "love-in-idleness," to signify her listlessness of heart during the Earl's absence; as the Poet elsewhere uses similar terms of the pansy, as denoting the love that renders men pensive, dreamy, indolent, instead of toning up the soul with healthy and noble aspirations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference

A garden in which there were arbours for love-in-idleness where ladies had dreamed awhile on many summer days in the great yesterday of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the War] Reference

“love-in-idleness,” to signify her listlessness of heart during the Earl's absence; as the Poet elsewhere uses similar terms of the pansy, as denoting the love that renders men pensive, dreamy, indolent, instead of toning up the soul with healthy and noble aspirations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters]

The great grow love-in-idleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drift of Pinions] Reference

And maidens call it love-in-idleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

"And maidens call it love-in-idleness".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference

And maidens call it love-in-idleness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

"love-in-idleness," and Drayton named it "heartsease.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

It's got lots of names -- love-lies-bleeding, love-in-idleness, la pensee in French, wild pansy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]