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. Been pitied since by each succeeding age;
  2. Thy cruel parents by false lords abus'd,
  3. Had yet some plea, tho' none their crime excus'd.
  4. What, Jason, did your dire revenge provoke?
  5. What, Tereus, urge you to the fatal stroke?
  6. What rage your reason led so far away,
  7. As furious hands upon yourself to lay?
  8. The tigresses that haunt th' Armenian wood,