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. This rack, with what obedience did it bear?
  2. "Ah spare," I cried, "thy patient tresses spare!
  3. To hurt them is a sin: this needless toil
  4. Forbear, and do not, what adorns thee, spoil.
  5. 'Tis now too late to give your labour o'er,
  6. Those tortur'd ringlets are, alas ! no more.
  7. Ah, cease the cruel thought, and cease to pass
  8. Such irksome minutes at your faithful glass !