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. And all its pow'rs against itself employs.
  2. How subtle's human nature to contrive
  3. Its proper ruin, and itself deceive!
  4. Why didst thou cities with high walls surround,
  5. Why arms invent thy jarring sons to wound ?
  6. What quarrel hast thou with the sea, and why
  7. Didst thou at first the pathless ocean try ?
  8. Cannot the land content thy restless pride ?
  9. Didst thou with Saturn's sons the whole divide,
  10. Thou wouldst not with three worlds be satisfied.
  11. 'Tis strange thy vast ambition did not fly
  12. O'er earth, and sea, and air, and scale the sky;
  13. That man did not aspire to be a god,
  14. And tread the paths by Indian Bacchus trod,