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 sensible of beauty's powerful charm,
  2. You hear their call amid the noise of arms.
  3. A place for Paris in your verse we find,
  4. And Helen's to the young adult'rer kind;
  5. There lovely Laodamia mourns her lord,
  6. The first that fell by Hector's fatal sword.
  7. If well I know you, and your mind can tell,
  8. The theme's as grateful, and you like as well