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. To whom thou art forsworn, but most by Love,
  2. By thy fair face, which I as much adore
  3. As all those gods, and own as much its pow'r,
  4. Forgive me this offence, and I'll offend no more.
  5. Be what thou wilt, thy humour good or ill,
  6. I'll love thee, thou shalt be my mistress still
  7. Ah, let my passion ever favour find,
  8. Or be it with, or be't against my mind,
  9. But rather let me sail before the wind.
  10. Ah, let thy wishes with my will agree,
  11. Since surely I thy slave must ever be;
  12. In thee since I have centred all my joys,
  13. Oh Venus ! let my love be still my choice.
  1. Ill-omen'd birds, how luckless was the day,
  2. When o'er my love you did your wings display!
  3. What wayward orb, what inauspicious star
  4. Did then rule heav'n ? what gods against me war?
  5. She who so much my fatal passion wrongs,
  6. Was known and first made famous by my songs.
  7. I lov'd her first, and lov'd her then alone,