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Date: 1852

"Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, / From the soul's subterranean depth upborne / As from an infinitely distant land, / Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey / A melancholy into all our day."

— Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

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Date: 1852

"A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, / And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again."

— Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)

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Date: 1855

"Far from the springtide gale, and joyous day, / In the deep caverns of Despair ye lay"

— Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)

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Date: April 1861

"My heart is like a rainbow shell / That paddles in a halcyon sea."

— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

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Date: 1868

"My heart resents Thy softening power, My heart is melting wax;"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"My heart like wax before the fire / Dissolves; my life doth all expire / In agonizing groans!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

" My heart within like wax doth melt, / And on Thy cross my nature bleeds."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"And take possession of Thy own / And seal my heart for ever Thine."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"And through Thy sacred blood applied / My soul shall feel its pardon seal'd"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Assure us of Thy constant care, / And on our hearts the answer seal."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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