"QUEEN GERTRUDE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,..." - Shakespeare, 'Hamlet'.
"QUEEN GERTRUDE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,..."
- Shakespeare, 'Hamlet'.
Below: a fen where water stood;
Aslant: their hill of stinging nettle
from 'Bucolics,' by Sylvia Plath