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. When to thy arms, all loose, and disarray'd,
  2. Prepar'd for pleasure, flew the melting maid.
  3. Fix'd on her door, how oft I've hung on high,
  4. Expos'd, and patient of each gazing eye !
  5. How oft, in secret, while the keeper stay'd,
  6. Within her woman's panting bosom laid !
  7. Once sent a birthday gift, the cruel dame
  8. In pieces tore, and gave me to the flame.
  9. I taught thee first to cultivate thy mind;