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Date: 1825

"One only passion, strong and unconfined, / Disturbed the balance of her even mind"

— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)

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Date: 1842

The fancy may haunt a place from the one's past

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

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Date: 1842

Time may not "wear thy heart-stamp'd form away"

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

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Date: 1842

"Unchang'd the lasting images remain, / Of which Remembrance ever holds the chain."

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

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Date: 1842

In memory one may see the "nameless graces" of a friend's "polish'd mind"

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

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Date: 1842

"The heart retires within her cave, / And, bleeding, asks an early grave!"

— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)

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Date: April 1861

"My heart is like a rainbow shell / That paddles in a halcyon sea."

— Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)

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