Date: 1822
"Thrice has a gloomy vision hunted me / As thus from sleep into the troubled day; / It shakes me as the tempest shakes the sea, / Leaving no figure upon memory's glass"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1822-8
"When Raphael went, / His heavenly face the mirror of his mind, / His mind a temple for all lovely things / To flock to and inhabit"
preview | full record— Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855)
Date: 1823
"Retire: but look into your past impression! / And you will find, though shuddering at the mirror / Of your own thoughts, in all their self confession, / The lurking bias, be it truth or error, / To the unknown."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"What was this grief, which ne'er in other minds / A mirror found"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1824
"What if thy deep and ample stream should be / A mirror of my heart, where she may read / The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"What do I say--a mirror of my heart? / Are not thy waters sweeping, dark, and strong? / Such as my feelings were and are, thou art; / And such as thou art were my passions long."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1825
Beauty, elegance and grace may "beam transcendent" from an "angel mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1826
"[T]hen sweet Memory / May come, and with her mirror cheer thy mind, / On whose bright surface lovelier scenes shall live / Than any shrined within Italian climes."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)