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. Of her fair face, and downward how she takes
  2. The wolf's fierce form, the dog's, or curling snake's;
  3. Serpents for hair, in ancient song we meet,
  4. And man and horse with wings instead of feet.
  5. Huge Tityon from the skies the poets flung,
  6. Encelladus's wars with Jove they sung;
  7. How by her spells, and by her voice, to beasts,
  8. The doubtful virgin chang'd her wretched guests;
  9. How Eolus did for Ulysses keep