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. May she swift slip thee on thy taper seat.
  2. As she and I, may thou with her agree,
  3. And not too large, nor yet too little be.
  4. To touch her hand thou wilt the pleasure have;
  5. I now must envy what myself I gave.
  6. O! would a Proteus or a Circe change
  7. Me to thy form, that I like thee might range !
  8. Then would I wish thee with her breasts to play,
  9. And her left hand beneath her robes to stray.
  10. Tho' straight she thought me, I will then appear
  11. Loose and unfix'd, and slip I know not where.
  12. Whene'er she writes some secret lines of love,
  13. Lest the dry gum and wax should sticking prove,