Date: 1850
"And, like the lake by storm or moonlight seen, / With darkening furrows or cerulean mien, / His countenance, the mirror of his breast, / The calm or trouble of his soul express'd"
preview | full record— Montgomery, James (1771-1854)
Date: 1850
"Without reflection, or comparison / They take what offers to th' untroubled mirror / Of their slight intellects"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
Date: 1850
"My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1862
"Thy present ill with pictures of the past / Is oft beguiled; so fresh the colours last / In thy mind 's mirror pure, at will display'd"
preview | full record— Strong, Charles (1785-1864)
Date: 1863
"May, united, love and duty / In my bosom be enshrined, / And reflect each other's beauty / In the mirror of my mind."
preview | full record— Daniel, George (1789-1864)
Date: 1868
"And images, that, in the musing mind, / As in a placid lake, lie mirrored and defined, / If ruffling winds along the surface stray, / Scatter'd and broken, pass like rack away"
preview | full record— Lyte, Henry Francis (1793-1847)
Date: 1870
"All her loveliness / Is Beauty's reflex, when she mirror proves / To man's o'erruling mind, whose powër moves / Upon her aspect,"
preview | full record— Heraud, John Abraham (1799-1887)
Date: 1870
One may be "An honest earnest soul sincere, / An independent spirit true, / Whose mind was as a mirror clear, / And from the world no shadow knew"
preview | full record— Heraud, John Abraham (1799-1887)
Date: August-November, 1871
"[B]ut the mind of Mr. Rossetti is like a glassy mere, broken only by the dive of some water-bird or the hum of winged insects, and brooded over by an atmosphere of insufferable closeness, with a light blue sky above it, sultry depths mirrored within it, and a surface so thickly sown with water-l...
preview | full record— Buchanan, Robert (1841–1901)
Date: 1873
"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."
preview | full record— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)