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. All stay, and do not, from the blushing east,
  2. With dawning glories break our balmy rest.
  3. When night's black mantle does those glories hide,
  4. The pilot by the stars his ship can guide,
  5. And in mid-sea a certain course pursue,
  6. As safe as when he has the sun in view.
  7. What pleasure in thy light should mortals take?
  8. Thou dost the weary traveller awake;