| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘When thy beauty appears’ | | By Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) |
| | | WHEN thy beauty appears | |
| 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! | 5 |
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| But when without art, | |
| 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. | 10 |
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| There’s a passion and pride | |
| 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. | 15 | | | |
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