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. Nor rival's rage, nor dire enchantment blame,
  2. Nor envy's blasting tongue, nor fever's flame.
  3. The mischief by thy own fair hands was wrought;
  4. Nor dost thou suffer for another's fault.
  5. How oft I bade thee, but in vain, beware
  6. The venom'd essence, that destroy'd thy hair?
  7. Now with new arts thou shalt thy pride amuse,
  8. And curls, of German captives borrow'd, use.
  9. Drusus to Rome their vanquish'd nation sends
  10. And the fair slave to thee her tresses lends.
  11. With alien locks thou wilt thy head adorn,
  12. And conquests gain'd by foreign beauties scorn.
  13. How wilt thou blush, with other charms to please,
  14. And cry, "How fairer were my locks than these !"
  15. By heav'ns, to heart she takes her head's disgrace,
  16. She weeps, and covers with her hands her face.
  17. She weeps, as in her lap her locks she views;
  18. What woman would not weep, such locks to lose!
  19. Ah, that they still did on her shoulders flow,
  20. Ah, that they now, where once they grew, did grow!