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. While I with sprightliness love's vigil's keep,
  2. Stretch'd out for something far more sweet than sleep.
  3. Others from ruin fly, to mine I run,
  4. To be by women pleasingly undone,
  5. Longing for two, since undestroy'd by one.
  6. Still let my slender limbs for love suffice;
  7. I want no nerves, but want the bulky size.
  8. My limbs, tho' lean are not in vain display'd;
  9. From me no female ever rose a maid.