Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray and Smollett

Song

1 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!

2 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.

3 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.