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. And stead of water, be thy portion wine.
  2. But what avail my soothing words? Thy ear
  3. Is deaf, inhuman! to my moving pray'r.
  4. Your gates with posts of pond'rous oak are barr'd,
  5. As if your house was for a siege prepar'd;
  6. Why all this fence? what foe have you to fear?
  7. And why in peace do you provide for war?
  8. Thus rudely if your lady's friends you treat,