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. And yet by me you once devoutly swore,
  2. By your own eyes, those stars that I adore,
  3. That all my bus'ness you would make your own,
  4. And never suffer me to be alone:
  5. But faithless woman nat'rally deceives,
  6. Their frequent oaths are like the falling leaves,
  7. Which when a storm has from the branches tore
  8. Are lost by ev'ry blast, and seen no more:
  9. Yet if you will be true, your vows retrieve,
  10. Be kind, and I can easily forgive ;
  11. Prepare your coach, to me direct your course,
  12. Drive fiercely on, and lash the lazy horse;