Date: 1824
"In his soul's mirror Ellen had grown dim, / And yet she was unchanged--though not for him!"
preview | full record— Moir, David Macbeth (1798-1851)
Date: 1824
"'My Sovereign, O beware: with piercing eye/ 'The secrets of thine Odo's bosom try: / 'Virtue, that never asks the test to spare, / 'The mirror to its inmost thoughts can claim; / 'And come forth purer from the searching flame!'"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
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: 1832
"Yet distant countries / Not then, as now, communication held / By beaten tracks, and all the luxuries / Of easy transit, while the missive charge / Of the pen's register'd mirror of the mind / Was slow and interrupted"
preview | full record— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)
Date: 1839
"A face, the mirror of her mind, Like sky without a cloud"
preview | full record— Pringle, Thomas (1789-1834)
Date: 1840-1
"Proud were my soul, to see its humble thought / On painting's mirror so divinely caught;"
preview | full record— Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
Date: 1842
"For now with Fancy's glass they see"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"E'en the mind's eye a glassy mirror shews, / And far too deeply her bold pencil draws"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)