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"

— 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."

— 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"

— 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,"

— 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"

— Heraud, John Abraham (1799-1887)

Date: 1873

"There thou sittest in thy wonted corner / Lone and awful in thy darkened mind."

— Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

Date: 1876

"What art thou, Mind, that mirror'st things unseen, / Giv'st to the dead the smiles which erst they wore, / And lift'st the veil which fate hath cast between / Thee and the forms which are not, but have been?"

— Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

Date: 1876

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

— Hogg, James (1770-1835)

Date: 1785, 1881

"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"

— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Date: 1900

"But thought that strives to reunite / In polished facets of the mind / The broken colours of the light / Baffled in mists of human kind."

— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)