mirror of the mind
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If the face is the mirror of the mind, as Saint Jerome observed, then what happens when the face is disfigured by the savagery of war?
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022
O softly, O tenderly, the heart now stirs With desires faint and formless; and, seeking not, I find Quiet thoughts that flash like azure kingfishers Across the luminous, tranquil mirror of the mind.
From Poems - First Series by Squire, J. C. (John Collings)
And Thomson says:— "If she, whom I implore, Urania, deign With euphrasy to purge away the mists, Which, humid, dim the mirror of the mind."
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
Upon the mirror of the mind her breath ��Is like a cloud, to hide the fading trace ��Of that dear smile, of that remembered face, Whose presence were the joy and pang of death.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
Agnes Grey is the mirror of the mind of the writer.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
