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. Sick men long most to drink, who know they mayn't.
  2. The fiery courser, whom no art can stay,
  3. Or rugged force, does oft fair means obey;
  4. And he that did the rudest arm disdain,
  5. Submits with quiet to the looser rein.
  6. A hundred eyes had Argus, yet the while
  7. One silly maid did all those eyes beguile;
  8. Danae, tho' shut within a brazen tow'r,
  9. Felt the male virtue of the golden show'r;
  10. But chaste Penelope, left to her own will
  11. And free disposal, never thought of ill;
  12. She to her absent lord preserv'd her truth,
  13. For all th' addresses of the smoother youth,
  14. What's rarely seen, our fancy magnifies;
  15. Permitted pleasure who does not despise ?
  16. Thy care provokes beyond her face, and more
  17. Men strive to make tho cuckold than the whore.
  18. They're wondrous charms we think, and long to know
  19. That in a wife enchants a husband so:
  20. Rage, swear, and curse, no matter, she alone