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. To be by women pleasingly undone,
  2. Longing for two, since undestroy'd by one.
  3. Still let my slender limbs for love suffice;
  4. I want no nerves, but want the bulky size.
  5. My limbs, tho' lean are not in vain display'd;
  6. From me no female ever rose a maid.
  7. Oft have I, when a luscious night was spent,
  8. Saluted morn, nor cloy'd nor impotent.
  9. Happy, who gasps in love his latest breath;
  10. Give me, ye gods, so softly sweet a death !
  11. Let the rough warriors grapple on the plain,