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. Was she not that which all my soul desir'd ?
  2. Yet were these arms around her idly spread,
  3. And with an useless load I press'd the bed.
  4. E'en to my wishes was the power denied,
  5. When with my wishes the kind nymph complied
  6. I lay without life's animated spring,
  7. A dull, enervate, worthless, lumpish thing.
  8. My neck she folded with a soft embrace,
  9. Now kissed my eyes, now wanton'd o'er my face,