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. If e'er you on an errand go for me,
  2. More careful, sirrah! how you stumble, be;
  3. Step soberly, and warily along;
  4. The end's ne'er right if the beginning's wrong.
  5. Sinee thus in vain her pity I implore,
  6. I'll ne'er to tablets trust my passion more;
  7. Nor with my wax for death my warrant seal;
  8. Worse than her scorn, what torture can I feel?
  9. From combs of Cosica the wax was ta'en,
  10. The latent poison was the lover's bane.
  11. Bees there from venom'd flow'rs their honey suck,