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. As soldiers, when the foe securely lies
  2. In sleep, and wine dissolv'd, the camp surprise;
  3. So when the jealous to their rest remove,
  4. And all is hush'd, — the other steals to love.
  5. You then, who think that love's an idle fit,
  6. Know, that it is the exercise of wit.
  7. In flames of love the fierce Achilles burns,
  8. And, quitting arms, absent Briseis mourns:
  9. From the embraces of Andromache
  10. Went Hector arm'd for war, and victory.
  11. As Agamemnon saw Cassandra pass
  12. With hair dishevell'd, and disorder'd dress,
  13. H' admir'd the beauties of the prophetess: