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. Blown to and fro, like down from thy own wing,
  2. Who knows when joy or anguish thou wilt bring?
  3. Yet at thy mother's and thy slave's request,
  4. Fix an eternal empire in my breast;
  5. And let th' inconstant charming sex,
  6. Whose wilful scorn does lovers vex,
  7. Submit their hearts before thy throne;
  8. The vassal world is then thy own.
  1. What you affirm'd, my friend, is prov'd untrue,