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. Rivers themselves love's wondrous power have tried.
  2. 'Twas on this score Inachus, pale and wan,
  3. Sickly and green, into the ocean ran ;
  4. Long before Troy the ten-years siege did fear,
  5. Thou, Xanthus, thou Neaera's chains didst wear;
  6. Ask Achelous who his horns did drub,
  7. Straight he complains of Hercules's club.
  8. For Calydon, for all Aetolia
  9. Was then contested such outrageous fray!
  10. It neither was for gold, nor yet for fee;
  11. Dejanira, it was all for thee.
  12. E'en Nile so rich, that rolls thro' sev'n wide doors,