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Date: 1892

"Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind, / Thy windy will to bear!"

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1892

"The broadest land that grows / Is not so ample as theĀ breast / These emerald seams enclose."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1892

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brainĀ has corridors surpassing / Material place."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1892

"Winds of summer fields / Recollect the way,-- / Instinct picking up the key / Dropped by memory."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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Date: 1900

"Then from this hour deep on my heart engraved / Be all my duty needful."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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