"Here, true to nature's feelings, find / A living mirror in each mind."

— Story, Robert (1795-1860)


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.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
10/23/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.