Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | VI. Lovers | | “When your beauty appears” | | Thomas Parnell (1679–1718) |
| | | “WHEN your beauty appears, | |
| In its graces and airs, | |
| All bright as an angel new dropt from the skies, | |
| At distance I gaze, and am awed by my fears, | |
| So strangely you dazzle my eyes! | 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 at your heart, | |
| Then I know that you ’re 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 to you.” | 15 | | | |
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