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. Oft have I wish'd the winds would stop thy way,
  2. Repel thy car, or clouds involve the day.
  3. Dost thou in envy lash each lazy steed,
  4. And whirl thy chariot with unwonted speed?
  5. Black was thy son, and in his hue's express'd
  6. The gloomy passions of his parent's breats;
  7. He, born of Cephalus, his ravish'd sire,
  8. Is a known proof of thy adult'rous fire.
  9. Thou, by his colour, wouldst thy crime conceal;