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. Wherewith the am'rous theft might be disguis'd;
  2. Of herbs and spells she tries the guilty force,
  3. The poison of a mare that goes to horse.
  4. Cleaving the midnight air upon a switch,
  5. Some for a bawd, most take her for a witch.
  6. Each morning sees her reeling to her bed,
  7. Her native blue o'ercome with drunken red:
  8. Her ready tongue ne'er wants a useful lie,
  9. Soft moving words, nor charming flattery.
  10. Thus I o'erheard her to my Lucia speak:
  11. "Young Damon's heart wilt thou for ever break