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. Love guides me when by night I walk the street,
  2. And when I grope my way directs my feet.
  3. By night I was a youth afraid to walk,
  4. Frighted by children and old nurses' talk;
  5. I wonder'd men could wander in the gloom,
  6. And kept, for fear of spirits, close at home.
  7. Love and his mother, when they knew my care,
  8. Cried, "Fool, thou shalt not long these phantoms fear."