Date: 1818 (1819?)

"His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings / He furleth close."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1818 (1819?)

"He has his Summer, when luxuriously / Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves / To ruminate"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1835-7

Romney is an expert and can trace "The mind's impression too on every face"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

Date: 1838

"Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, / And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1838

"Save me from curious Conscience, that still lords / Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1838

All the "eye doth meet is mist and crag" in "the world of thought and mental might"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1842

"[I]mages / Hurrying so swiftly their fresh witcheries / O'er the mind's mirror, that the several / Seems lost, or blended in the mighty All."

— De Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846)

Date: 1842

"Strengthened by Him, not all / The blandishment of Passion shall obscure / The mirror of the soul"

— De Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846)

Date: 1842

A "thought of shame" may "Bedim the mental eye with film impure"

— De Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846)

Date: 1848

The mind's palate may lose "its gust"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)