When your beauty appears (Thomas Arne)
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- (Posted 2023-11-07) CPDL #77047:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 405 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes the original orchestral accompaniment.
- (Posted 2023-11-07) CPDL #77046:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-11-07). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 131 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition includes a keyboard reduction of the original instrumental accompaniment.
General Information
Title: When your beauty appears
Composer: Thomas Arne
Lyricist: Thomas Parnellcreate page
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: solo high
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Basso continuo,Violins
First published: 1748
Description: Written for performance at Vauxhall, and sung by Thomas Lowe.
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Original text and translations
English text
"When your beauty appears in its graces and airs,
All bright as an angel new dropp'd from the skies;
At distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears,
So strangely, so strangely you dazzle my eyes!
But when without art your kind thoughts you impart,
When your love runs in blushes through ev'ry vein,
When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,
I know you're a woman, a woman again."
"There's a passion and pride in our sex," she replied,
"And thus, might I gratify both, I would do;
An angel appear to each lover beside,
But still be a woman, a woman to you."