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. Will spare their proper young, though pinch'd for food;
  2. Nor will the Libyan lionesses slay
  3. Their whelps,—but woman are more fierce than they;
  4. More barb'rous to the tender fruit they bear,
  5. Nor nature's call, tho' loud she cries, will hear.
  6. But righteous vengeance oft their crimes pursues,
  7. And they are lost themselves, who would their
  8. children lose;