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. How oft I bade thee, but in vain, beware
  2. The venom'd essence, that destroy'd thy hair?
  3. Now with new arts thou shalt thy pride amuse,
  4. And curls, of German captives borrow'd, use.
  5. Drusus to Rome their vanquish'd nation sends
  6. And the fair slave to thee her tresses lends.
  7. With alien locks thou wilt thy head adorn,
  8. And conquests gain'd by foreign beauties scorn.
  9. How wilt thou blush, with other charms to please,
  10. And cry, "How fairer were my locks than these !"
  11. By heav'ns, to heart she takes her head's disgrace,
  12. She weeps, and covers with her hands her face.
  13. She weeps, as in her lap her locks she views;
  14. What woman would not weep, such locks to lose!
  15. Ah, that they still did on her shoulders flow,
  16. Ah, that they now, where once they grew, did grow!
  17. Take courage, fair Corinna, never fear,
  18. Thou shalt not long these borrow'd tresses wear:
  19. Time for your beauty shall this loss repair
  20. And you again shall charm with native hair.