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. Not so Diana would to Phoebus press,
  2. But Cytherea so her Mars would bless.
  3. Too far provok'd, at last I cried aloud,
  4. "On whom are pleasures, due to me, bestow'd?
  5. I must not, will not, cannot bear this sight;
  6. 'Tis lawful, sure, to seize upon my right.
  7. These raptures to us both in common are,
  8. But whence, ye furies, claims a third his share?"
  9. Enrag'd I spoke, and o'er her cheeks were spread