"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"

— Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844)


Place of Publication
Edinburgh
Publisher
Printed for Mundell and Son
Date
1799
Metaphor
"And, in the waveless mirror of his mind, / Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind, / Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!"
Metaphor in Context
How blest he names, in love's familiar tone,
The kind fair friend, by nature marked his own;
And, in the waveless mirror of his mind,
Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind,
Since Anna's empire o'er his heart began!

Since first he called her his before the holy man!
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "mirror" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
11 entries in the ESTC (1799, 1800).

See The Pleasures of Hope; in Two Parts. With Other poems. By Thomas Campbell. (Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell and Son, 1799). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
10/10/2005
Date of Review
09/27/2006

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