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. With adoration did her charms confess.
  2. Her envious gown to pull away I tried,
  3. But she resisted still, and still denied;
  4. But so resisted that she seem'd to be
  5. Unwilling to obtain the victory;
  6. So I at last an easy conquest had,
  7. Whilst my fair combatant herself betray'd.
  8. But when she naked stood before my eyes,