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. On subjects, not thy own, commands to lay,
  2. Who Phoebus only, and his laws obey ?
  3. 'Tis more absurd, than if the queen of love
  4. Should in Minerva's arms to battle move;
  5. Or manly Pallas from that queen should take
  6. Her torch, and o'er the dying lover shake.
  7. In fields as well may Cynthia sow the corn,
  8. Or Ceres wind in woods the bugle-horn;
  9. As well may Phoebus quit the trembling string,
  10. For sword and shield; and Mars may learn to sing.
  11. Already thy dominions are too large;
  12. Be not ambitious of a foreign charge.
  13. If thou wilt reign o'er all, and ev'ry where,
  14. The god of music for his harp may fear.