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Date: 1850

"The images that play / Upon the mirror of the mind, will pierce / And burst the veil, and strive to show their shapes, / And tints of bright magnificence and beauty / Before a wondering world"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

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Date: 1850

"Without reflection, or comparison / They take what offers to th' untroubled mirror / Of their slight intellects"

— Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762-1837)

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Date: 1868

"Thy lovely portraiture we find / Engraven on our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"So deeply engraven I find / Thy form on my desolate heart!"

— 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.