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 threatening language, such as virgins fear.
  2. Fear having chill'd the current of her blood,
  3. She pale as Parian marble statue stood;
  4. Tears, which suspense did for a while restrain,
  5. Gush'd forth, and down her cheeks the deluge ran.
  6. As when the sun does by a powerful beam
  7. Dissolve the frost, it runs into a stream.
  8. The lamentable objects struck me dead,
  9. And tears of blood to quench those tears I shed;
  10. Thrice at her feet the prostrate suppliant fell,
  11. And thrice did she repulse the criminal.
  12. What would I not your anger to abate,
  13. Redeem your favour, or remove your hate?
  14. To your revenge no means or method spare;
  15. Revenge, alas! is easy to the fair.