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 all is hush'd, — the other steals to love.
  2. You then, who think that love's an idle fit,
  3. Know, that it is the exercise of wit.
  4. In flames of love the fierce Achilles burns,
  5. And, quitting arms, absent Briseis mourns:
  6. From the embraces of Andromache
  7. Went Hector arm'd for war, and victory.
  8. As Agamemnon saw Cassandra pass