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. Temples nor altars does his lightning spare.
  2. Obliging Semele in flames expires,
  3. But those who merit, can escape the fires.
  4. Is this the justice of your pow'rs divine?
  5. Who then will offer incense at a shrine ?
  6. Why do we thus reproach the deities ?
  7. Have they not hearts ?-and surely they have eyes,
  8. Nay, had I been a god, I had believ'd
  9. The lovely criminals, and been deceiv'd;