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. Here driven by winds, and there redriven by tides.
  2. Why doubly chain'd ? was not a single fair
  3. Enough to load me with perpetual care?
  4. Why are more leaves brought to the shady wood,
  5. Stars to the sky, or waters to the flood ?
  6. Yet better so than not to love at all;
  7. Still on my foes may such dull blessings fall.
  8. May they, insipidly supine, be spread
  9. Along the middle of a widowed bed;