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. In all thy days when didst a courtesy ?
  2. Dry traveller ne'er laid a lip to thee.
  3. The bane to cattle, to the meadows worse,
  4. For something all, I for my sufferings curse.
  5. To such unworthy wretch, how am I sham'd,
  6. That I the gen'rous am'rous river nam'd!
  7. When Nile and Achelous I display'd,
  8. And Thame and Ouse, what worm was in my head
  9. For thy reward, discourteous river, I
  10. Wish, be the summers hot, the winters dry.
  1. Was she not heavenly fair, and rich attir'd ?
  2. Was she not that which all my soul desir'd ?
  3. Yet were these arms around her idly spread,
  4. And with an useless load I press'd the bed.
  5. E'en to my wishes was the power denied,
  6. When with my wishes the kind nymph complied
  7. I lay without life's animated spring,
  8. A dull, enervate, worthless, lumpish thing.