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. Or make poor lovers sigh, lament, and groan,
  2. Or charge her votaries to lie alone ?
  3. For Ceres, though she loves the fruitful fields,
  4. Yet sometimes feels the force of love, and yields:
  5. This Crete can witness, (Crete not always lies)
  6. Crete that nurs'd Jove, and heard his infant cries,
  7. There he was suckled who now rules the skies.
  8. That Jove his education there receiv'd,
  9. Will raise her fame, and make her be believ'd;
  10. Nay she herself will never strive to hide
  11. Her love, 'tis too well known to be denied:
  12. She saw young Jasius in the Cretan grove
  13. Pursue the deer, she saw, and fell in love.
  14. She then perceived when first she felt the fire,
  15. On this side modesty, on that desire;
  16. Desire prevail'd, and then the field grew dry,
  17. The farmer lost his crop and knew not why;
  18. When he had toil'd, manur'd his grounds, and plough' d,
  19. Harrow'd his fields, and broke his clods, and sow'd,
  20. No corn appear'd, none to reward his pain,