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Date: 1868

"And doth even now His peace impart, / And stamps His image on my heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"We ask a soul no longer blind, / Who chased the darkness of thy mind, / Open'd thine inward eyes to see / That all on earth is vanity"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"Over me the billows roll, / Swallow up my sinking soul."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

God's "coming from above" may stamp his image on one's heart

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"And seal our souls for ever Thine"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"O make me free within / From pride, and passion's chain, / My spirit by Thy bonds release, / And bid me go in perfect peace."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"A sinner's heart by lust possess'd, / Of birds unclean the loathsome nest, / Of fiends the dark abode; / A stinking sepulchre it lies, / While the poor wretch with horror flies / The sight of man and God."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: April 26 1870

"The cloud's not danced out of my brain,— / The cloud that made it turn and swim / While hour by hour the books grew dim."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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Date: April 26 1870

"Let the thoughts pass, an empty cloud!"

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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Date: April 26 1870

"Why, as a volume seldom read / Being opened halfway shuts again, / So might the pages of her brain / Be parted at such words, and thence / Close back upon the dusty sense."

— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

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