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. In vain thou seek'st thy silken locks to find;
  2. Banish the dear remembrance from thy mind.
  3. No weeds destroy'd them with their pois'nous juice,
  4. Nor canst thou witches' magic charms accuse,
  5. Nor rival's rage, nor dire enchantment blame,
  6. Nor envy's blasting tongue, nor fever's flame.
  7. The mischief by thy own fair hands was wrought;
  8. Nor dost thou suffer for another's fault.
  9. How oft I bade thee, but in vain, beware
  10. The venom'd essence, that destroy'd thy hair?
  11. Now with new arts thou shalt thy pride amuse,
  12. And curls, of German captives borrow'd, use.
  13. Drusus to Rome their vanquish'd nation sends
  14. And the fair slave to thee her tresses lends.
  15. With alien locks thou wilt thy head adorn,
  16. And conquests gain'd by foreign beauties scorn.