When thy beauty appears <br />In its graces and airs <br />All bright as an angel new dropp'd from the sky, <br />At distance I gaze and am awed by my fears: <br />So strangely you dazzle my eye! <br /> <br />But when without art <br />Your kind thoughts you impart, <br />When your love runs in blushes through every vein; <br />When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart, <br />Then I know you're a woman again. <br /> <br />There 's a passion and pride <br />In our sex (she replied), <br />And thus, might I gratify both, I would do: <br />Still an angel appear to each lover beside, <br />But still be a woman to you.<br /><br />Thomas Parnell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-43/
