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 light to modest maids must be allow'd,
  2. Where shame may hope its guilty head to shroud.
  3. And now my love Corinna did appear,
  4. Loose on her neck fell her divided hair;
  5. Loose as her flowing gown, that wanton'd in the air.
  6. In such a garb, with such a grace and mien,
  7. To her rich bed came the Assyrian queen;
  8. So Lais looked when all the youth of Greece