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. And quickly fall, like autumn leaves, away
  2. Why barb'rously dost thou thy bowels tear
  3. To kill the human load that quickens there?
  4. On venom'd drugs why venture, to destroy
  5. The pledge of pleasure past, the promis'd boy?
  6. Medea, guilty of her childrens' blood,
  7. The mark of ev'ry age's curse has stood;
  8. And Atys, murder'd by his mothers rage,
  9. Been pitied since by each succeeding age;
  10. Thy cruel parents by false lords abus'd,
  11. Had yet some plea, tho' none their crime excus'd.
  12. What, Jason, did your dire revenge provoke?
  13. What, Tereus, urge you to the fatal stroke?