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. Why do I wish to sleep, but wish in vain?
  2. Why am I all the tedious night in pain?
  3. What cause is this, that ease, that rest denies?
  4. And why my words break forth in gentle sighs?
  5. Sure I should know if love had fix'd his dart;
  6. Or creeps he softly in with treacherous art,