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. When on the grass the Thracian nymphs recline,
  2. Of Bacchus full, and weary of their wine,
  3. Less lovely are their locks, than yours, less fair
  4. The ringlets of their soft dishevell'd hair:
  5. Softer was thine, like fleecy down it felt,
  6. And to the finger did as freely yield,
  7. How didst thou torture it, the curls to turn,
  8. Now with hot irons at thy toilet burn?
  9. This rack, with what obedience did it bear?
  10. "Ah spare," I cried, "thy patient tresses spare!
  11. To hurt them is a sin: this needless toil