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. Thy beauties yield me my transporting theme;
  2. And while I celebrate thy charming name,
  3. My verse shall be as sacred as my flame.
  4. Jove's sev'ral rapes, his injur'd Io's wrongs,
  5. Are made immortal in his poet's songs.
  6. Verse still reveals where Leda's flames began,
  7. Rais'd by the secret godhead in the swan,
  8. The story of the rape Europa bore,
  9. Shall last while winds shall rage, or waters roar.
  10. Your name shall live like theirs, while verse endures,
  11. And mine be ever writ, and read with yours.
  1. Your husband will be with us at the treat,
  2. May that be the last supper he shall eat.
  3. And am poor I, a guest invited there,