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. Orpheus, the heir of both his parents' skill,
  2. Tam'd wond'ring beasts, not death's more cruel will.
  3. Linus' sad strings on the dumb lute do lie.
  4. In silence forc'd to let their master die.
  5. His mother weeping does his eyelids close,
  6. And on his urn, tears, her last gift, bestows.
  7. His sister too, with hair dishevell'd, bears
  8. Part of her mother's nature, and her tears.
  9. With those, two fair, two mournful rivals come,
  10. And add a greater triumph to his tomb:
  11. Both hug his urn, both his lov'd ashes kiss,
  12. And both contend which reap'd the greater bliss.