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. A story know to all the court above.
  2. Once did I pass my hours in sloth and ease,
  3. Cool shades and beds of down could only please;
  4. When a commanding beauty rais'd my mind,
  5. I left all little trifling thoughts behind,
  6. And to her service all my heart resign'd:
  7. Since, like an active soldier, have I spent
  8. My time in toils of war, in beauty's tent: