"All her loveliness / Is Beauty's reflex, when she mirror proves / To man's o'erruling mind, whose powër moves / Upon her aspect,"
— Heraud, John Abraham (1799-1887)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
Date
1870
Metaphor
"All her loveliness / Is Beauty's reflex, when she mirror proves / To man's o'erruling mind, whose powër moves / Upon her aspect,"
Metaphor in Context
Learn, only in the eyes of him who loves Is woman lovely. All her loveliness Is Beauty's reflex, when she mirror proves To man's o'erruling mind, whose powër moves Upon her aspect, that acknowledges The mystic action, and thus images The rapt contemplant, while, in silent groves He gazes on the vestal he would bless. Invite, then, loving eyes to gaze on thine, And glance back loving oeliads, as they look, And all thy features will with beauty shine, And yield expression like a sacred book, For ages lost, found in some cloister's nook, In symbols written--like this book of mine.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
10/10/2005
