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. To haunt the crowded courts and pick up fees.
  2. Thy rise brings labour to the female band,
  3. And puts the spindle in the spinster's hand:
  4. Light are these toils, and little is the pain
  5. To rise to work, and rest at night again;
  6. But who that e'er knew love's transporting joys,
  7. Could from the arms of youth and beauty rise?
  8. Oft have I wish'd that night would keep her ground,
  9. And all her stars be at thy rising found;