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. Hear me, and be as happy as thou'rt fair:
  2. Damon is rich, and what thou wanst, can spare.
  3. Like thine his face, like thine his eyes are thought.
  4. Would he not buy, he might himself be bought."
  5. Fair Lucia blush'd. "It is a sign of grace,
  6. (Dypsas replied,) that red becomes thy face.
  7. All lovers now by what they give are weighed,
  8. And she is best belov'd that best is paid;
  9. The sun-burnt Latins, in old Tatius' reign,
  10. Did to one man perhaps their love restrain:
  11. Venus in her Aeneas' city rules,
  12. And all adore her deity but fools.
  13. Go on, ye fair, chaste only let such live
  14. As none will ask, and know not how to give.
  15. Life steals away, and our best hours are gone