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. She gives them courage, her they both regard,
  2. As one that caus'd the war, and must reward.
  3. Compell'd by Cupid in his host to list
  4. (And who that has a heart can love resist ?)
  5. His soldier I have been, without the guilt
  6. Of blood, in any of our battles spilt;
  7. For him I've fought, as many more have done,
  8. And many rivals met, but murder'd none.
  1. With cruel art Corinna would destroy
  2. The ripening fruit of our repeated joy.
  3. While on herself she practises her skill,
  4. She's like the mother, not the child, to kill.