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. Their shining tresses for young hearts a net?
  2. That ne'er provok'd you with your maids to war,
  3. For hurting you with your entangled hair?
  4. You ne'er were urg'd to some indecent fray,
  5. Nor in a fury snatch'd the comb away.
  6. The teeth ne'er touch'd you, and her constant care,
  7. Without ill arts, would have preserv'd your hair.
  8. Behind your chair I oft have seen her stand,
  9. And comb and curl it with a gentle hand:
  10. Oft have I seen it on your shoulders play
  11. Uncomb'd, as on your purple bed you lay.
  12. Your artless tresses with more charms appear,
  13. Than when adorn'd with all your cost and care.
  14. When on the grass the Thracian nymphs recline,
  15. Of Bacchus full, and weary of their wine,
  16. Less lovely are their locks, than yours, less fair
  17. The ringlets of their soft dishevell'd hair:
  18. Softer was thine, like fleecy down it felt,
  19. And to the finger did as freely yield,
  20. How didst thou torture it, the curls to turn,