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. "Poor in a dungeon's bottom may'st thou rot,
  2. Die with a blow with thy beloved pot;
  3. No brandy, and eternal thirst, thy lot."
  1. Trust me, my Atticus, in love are wars;
  2. And Cupid has his camp, as well as Mars:
  3. The age that's fit for war best suits with love,
  4. The old in both unserviceable prove,
  5. Infirm in war, and impotent in love.
  6. The soldiers which a general does require,
  7. Are such as ladies would in bed desire:
  8. Who but a soldier, and a lover, can
  9. Bear the night's cold, in show'rs of hail and rain?
  10. One in continual watch his station keeps,
  11. Or on the earth in broken slumbers sleeps;
  12. The other takes his still repeated round