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. For him I've fought, as many more have done,
  2. 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.
  5. Me she would not acquaint with what she did,
  6. From me a thing, which I abhorr'd, she hid;
  7. Well might I now be angry, but I fear,