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. Where I might lie, my little life improve,
  2. And spend my minutes 'twixt a muse and love:
  3. Yet these contributes little to my ease,
  4. For without you they lose the power to please;
  5. I seem to walk oe'r the fields of naked sand,
  6. Or tread an antic maze in fairy land,
  7. Where frightful specires, and pale shades appear,
  8. And hollow groans invade my troubled ear;
  9. Where ev'ry breeze that through my arbour flies,
  10. First sadly murmurs, and then turns to sighs.
  11. The vines love elms; what elms from vines remove?
  12. Then why should I be parted from my love?