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. One in continual watch his station keeps,
  2. Or on the earth in broken slumbers sleeps;
  3. The other takes his still repeated round
  4. By mistress' house — then lodges on the ground.
  5. Soldiers, and lovers, with a careful eye,
  6. Observe the motions of the enemy:
  7. One to the walls makes his approach in form,
  8. Pushes the siege, and takes the town by storm: