"His hands were raised on high-- / As, mirrored on his mystic mind, / Arose futurity"

— Hogg, James (1770-1835)


Date
1876
Metaphor
"His hands were raised on high-- / As, mirrored on his mystic mind, / Arose futurity"
Metaphor in Context
But, oh! that prophet's visioned eye, On Carmel that reclined, It looked not on the times gone by, But those that were behind; His gray hair streamed upon the wind-- His hands were raised on high-- As, mirrored on his mystic mind, Arose futurity.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry)
Date of Entry
10/10/2005

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