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. Had my own mother dealt as ill by me.
  2. Ah, vile invention, ah, accurs'd design,
  3. To rob of rip'ning fruit the loaded vine
  4. Ah, let it grow for nature's use mature,
  5. Ah, let it its full length of time endure;
  6. 'Twill of itself, alas! too soon decay,
  7. And quickly fall, like autumn leaves, away
  8. Why barb'rously dost thou thy bowels tear
  9. To kill the human load that quickens there?
  10. On venom'd drugs why venture, to destroy