Amores

Ovid

Ovid. Ovid's Art of Love (in three Books), the Remedy of Love, the Art of Beauty, the Court of Love, the History of Love, and Amours. Dryden, John, et al., translator. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1855.

  1. Let her without a margin fill it up,
  2. And crowd it from the bottom to the top.
  3. But why should I her pretty fingers tire?
  4. A word's enough, and all that I desire.
  5. Ah, Nape, let her only bid me come;
  6. The page is large, which for that word has room.
  7. Her letter, like a conqu'ror's, shall be bound
  8. With bays, for it with conquests shall be crown'd.
  1. Ah, pity me, my friends! the cruel fair
  2. Will neither read my just complaint, nor hear.