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. And when I grope my way directs my feet.
  2. By night I was a youth afraid to walk,
  3. Frighted by children and old nurses' talk;
  4. I wonder'd men could wander in the gloom,
  5. And kept, for fear of spirits, close at home.
  6. Love and his mother, when they knew my care,
  7. Cried, "Fool, thou shalt not long these phantoms fear."
  8. Nor fear'd I long, for love my heart possess'd;
  9. Those visions vanish'd, and my terrors ceas'd:
  10. Nor ghosts nor scourers did I dread, but stroll'd
  11. The streets a-nights, and grew in peril bold.
  12. Thee only do I fear, and trembling stand
  13. To wait the motions of thy tardy hand: