Date: 1823
"Retire: but look into your past impression! / And you will find, though shuddering at the mirror / Of your own thoughts, in all their self confession, / The lurking bias, be it truth or error, / To the unknown."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"What if thy deep and ample stream should be / A mirror of my heart, where she may read / The thousand thoughts I now betray to thee"
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1824
"What do I say--a mirror of my heart? / Are not thy waters sweeping, dark, and strong? / Such as my feelings were and are, thou art; / And such as thou art were my passions long."
preview | full record— Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Date: 1825
Beauty, elegance and grace may "beam transcendent" from an "angel mind"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1842
"The images of past delight / Have fleeted from her troubled sight, / And left no perfect form behind / On the dim mirror of the mind"
preview | full record— Herbert, William (1778-1847)
Date: 1785, 1881
"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Date: 1907
"'I see a Horse, I'm sure thats true.' / I say the Devil a Horse see You; / You see a Horse's Image, lain / In Miniature upon your brain; / But what you take for fourteen hand, / Is less than half a grain of sand."
preview | full record— Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)