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. To serve a lovely and a loving dame:
  2. If such a slave he loads with infamy,
  3. I'm willing he should judge as hard of me;
  4. I'm willing all the world should know my shame
  5. If Venus will abate my raging flame.
  6. Let me a fair and gentle mistress have,
  7. And then proclaim aloud that I'm her slave.
  8. Beauty is apt to swell a maiden's mind,
  9. And thus Corinna is to pride inclin'd:
  10. But as she is above all maiden's fair,