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. Unlock the gate, and kindness past repay.
  2. Hark: or I dream, or on the hinge I hear
  3. The wicket turn, or bolts unloosen'd jar.
  4. I dream, indeed, the bolts as they were laid,
  5. Stand fix'd: the noise was by my fancy made.
  6. But all, alas! is hush'd, I hear no sound,
  7. All in the silence of the night is drown'd.
  8. Here, hopeless of admittance, I attend,
  9. While on my head the pearly dews descend.
  10. Unlock the gate, the morning will not stay,