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. Act what you please, yet study to disguise
  2. The wanton scenes from my deluded eyes.
  3. A stiff denial would attenuate
  4. That crime which your confession would make great.
  5. And 'twere unwise to trust the tell-tale light,
  6. With the dark secrets of the silent night.
  7. Tho' bought to be enjoy'd, a common whore