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Date: 1775

"Suspence not long my anxious bosom pain'd, / My friend arrived, I clasp'd her to my breast, / I wept, I smiled, alternate passions reign'd, / Till me the sad unwelcome tale confess'd."

— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)

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Date: 1775

"This my success in search of Friendship's grove, / Where Liberty and Peace I hoped to find, / And soften'd thus with Grief, deceitful Love, / In Friendship's borrow'd garb, attack'd my mind."

— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)

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Date: 1775

"No passion raging like the roaring main, / But calm and gentle as a summer sea."

— Miss H******* (fl. 1751-1775)

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