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. Expos'd, and patient of each gazing eye !
  2. How oft, in secret, while the keeper stay'd,
  3. Within her woman's panting bosom laid !
  4. Once sent a birthday gift, the cruel dame
  5. In pieces tore, and gave me to the flame.
  6. I taught thee first to cultivate thy mind;
  7. Thy fancy brightened, and thy wit refin'd;
  8. Thou to my care those merits must allow,
  9. For which my rival would seduce thee now;"
  10. They spoke. I answer'd, "Let me both conjure
  11. To spare a mind with terrors unsecure;
  12. Nor to my charge, when once pronounc'd, be laid