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 the unlucky crow still caws for rain;
  2. The chough still lives 'midst fierce Minerva's hate,
  3. And scarce nine hundred years conclude her fate;
  4. But my poor Poll now hangs his sickly head,
  5. My Poll, my present from the east, is dead.
  6. Best things are sooner snatch'd by cov'tous fate,