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. Rome from each corner of the wide world snatch'd
  2. A laurel, or't had been to this day thatch'd;
  3. But the old soldier has his resting-place,
  4. And the good batter'd horse is turn'd to grass:
  5. The harass'd whore, who liv'd a wretch to please,
  6. Has leave to be a bawd, and take her ease.
  7. For me then, who have truly spent my blood,
  8. Love, in thy service, and so boldly stood
  9. In Celia's trenches, were't not wisely done,