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 easier tasks already raise my name?
  2. Thou mak'st my love immortal; thee I choose:
  3. Be thou my queen, and still command my muse.
  4. Majestic pow'r, forgive my simple choice,
  5. Thy gentle rival has obtain'd my voice.
  6. Short is the time in which her palm is won;
  7. Ere thine is gain'd, the poet's life is done."
  8. I lowly said: she gracious gave assent,
  9. And diff'rent ways the parting rivals went.
  10. Ye gentle loves, complete the work assign'd,
  11. A greater labour seems to press behind.
  1. Not in the Circus do I sit to view
  2. The running horses, but to gaze on you;
  3. Near you I choose an advantageous place,
  4. And whilst your eyes are fix'd upon the race,
  5. Mine are on you—Thus do we feast our sight,
  6. Each alike pleas'd with objects of delight;
  7. In softer whispers I my passion move,
  8. You of the rider talk, but I of love.
  9. When, to please you, I straight my subject quit