William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: When thy beauty appearsThomas Parnell (16791718)
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In its graces and airs,
All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky;
At distance I gaze and am awed by my fears,
So strangely you dazzle my eye!
Your kind thoughts you impart,
When your love runs in blushes through every vein;
When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,
Then I know you’re a woman again.
In our sex (she replied),
And thus, might I gratify both, I would do:
Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
But still be a woman in you.