"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."
— Story, Robert (1795-1860)
Author
Work Title
Date
1816
Metaphor
"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."
Metaphor in Context
Ceas'd her sweet voice;--applauses loud
Re-thunder through the charmed crowd.
They die away;--and many a strain
Alternate raise the maiden train.
Those airs a Ramsay's pipe had blown,
Those raptures that a Burns had known,
Here, true to nature's feelings, find
A living mirror in each mind.
Last Jessy, ask'd by all the train,
Awak'd thy lovely Flower, Dumblane!
On the sweet air attention hung,
And when she ceas'd applauses rung.
Re-thunder through the charmed crowd.
They die away;--and many a strain
Alternate raise the maiden train.
Those airs a Ramsay's pipe had blown,
Those raptures that a Burns had known,
Here, true to nature's feelings, find
A living mirror in each mind.
Last Jessy, ask'd by all the train,
Awak'd thy lovely Flower, Dumblane!
On the sweet air attention hung,
And when she ceas'd applauses rung.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
10/23/2005
