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. Quits his warm tent, and fits him for the field:
  2. The lab'ring hind his harrow takes, and now
  3. The peasant yokes his oxen to the plough:
  4. The boy half wak'd, and rubbing still his eyes,
  5. Is loth alike to go to school, or rise;
  6. While o'er his task he does imperfect nod,
  7. He fears the ferula, he dreads the rod.
  8. The bridegroom, starting from his bride's embrace,