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Date: 1796

"These feeble sounds / Give not my soul's rich meaning; or my thought / Rises too boldly o'er the human line / Of alphabets (misused)."

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

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Date: 1796

Stamp every act?

— Yearsley, Ann (bap. 1753, d. 1806)

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Date: w. 1784, 1799

"Pleased she surveys her infant charge, / Beholds the mental powers enlarge, / And as the young ideas rise, / Directs their issues to the skies."

— West, Jane (1758-1852)

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Date: 1799

One may hie "From his own blank inanity"

— Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

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Date: 1800, 1806

"He is young, / And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth, / That all its fires are faded"

— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)

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