Date: January, 1833
"Descriptive poetry consists, no doubt, in description, but in description of things as they appear, not as they are; and it paints them, not in their bare and natural lineaments, but seen through the medium and arrayed in the colors of the imagination set in action by the feelings."
preview | full record— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Date: 1839
"A face, the mirror of her mind, Like sky without a cloud"
preview | full record— Pringle, Thomas (1789-1834)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The former [i.e., conception] is as a mirror which reflects, the latter [i.e., expression] as a cloud which enfeebles, the light of which both are mediums of communication"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
Poetry "reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1840-1
"Proud were my soul, to see its humble thought / On painting's mirror so divinely caught;"
preview | full record— Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
Date: 1842
"For now with Fancy's glass they see"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"E'en the mind's eye a glassy mirror shews, / And far too deeply her bold pencil draws"
preview | full record— Blamire, Susanna (1747-1794)
Date: 1842
"[I]mages / Hurrying so swiftly their fresh witcheries / O'er the mind's mirror, that the several / Seems lost, or blended in the mighty All."
preview | full record— De Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846)
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: 1842
"Strengthened by Him, not all / The blandishment of Passion shall obscure / The mirror of the soul"
preview | full record— De Vere, Sir Aubrey (1788-1846)