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. Oh, that I ne'er had known the art to please,
  2. But written without genius and success.
  3. Why did the town so readily believe
  4. My verse, and why to songs such credit give ?
  5. Sure poetry s the same it ever was,
  6. And poets ne'er for oracles did pass.
  7. Why is such stress upon my writings laid?