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. Secure, and safe with the celestial charge,
  2. But now, though here my grateful fields afford
  3. Choice fruits to cheer their malancholy lord;
  4. Though here obedient streams the gard'ner leads,
  5. In narrow channels through my flow'ry beds;
  6. The poplars rise, and spread a shady grove,
  7. Where I might lie, my little life improve,
  8. And spend my minutes 'twixt a muse and love:
  9. Yet these contributes little to my ease,