WHEN thy beauty appears In its graces and airs All bright as an angel new dropped from the sky, At distance I gaze, and am awed by my fears, So strangely you dazzle my eye! 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. 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! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A LIFE'S PARALLELS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI LINES TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE WHO DIED AT MILAN, JUNE 6, 1860 by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 3. THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE RAZOR-SELLER by JOHN WOLCOTT FANNIE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 2. EPILOGUE: 5TH OCTOBER 1896 by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |