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. An awful silence reigns : the goddess last
  2. Approaches, and with her the pomp is past.
  3. The dress was Greek, and such Halesus wore,
  4. When in a fright he fled the Grecian shore;
  5. His father kill'd, an Argive ship he fraught,
  6. And to this coast the royal treasure brought.
  7. Much peril had he past, much labour known,
  8. O'er lands and seas, before he reach'd our own,
  9. And landing built, with happy hand, the town,