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. Take hin, who will for endless ages serve:
  2. Take him whose faithful flame will never swerve
  3. Though no illustrious names my race adorn;
  4. Who am but of equestrian order born;
  5. Though a few ploughs serve my paternal fields,
  6. Nor my small table many dishes yields;
  7. Yet Bacchus, Phoebus, and the tuneful nine,
  8. Are all my friends, and to my side incline,