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. Worse than her scorn, what torture can I feel?
  2. From combs of Cosica the wax was ta'en,
  3. The latent poison was the lover's bane.
  4. Bees there from venom'd flow'rs their honey suck,
  5. And surely to my wax that venom stuck.
  6. Chance on the seal did my misfortune paint,
  7. And show'd my doom by the vermilion teint.
  8. Curse on the instruments of my disgrace !