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. Oft have I, when a luscious night was spent,
  2. Saluted morn, nor cloy'd nor impotent.
  3. Happy, who gasps in love his latest breath;
  4. Give me, ye gods, so softly sweet a death !
  5. Let the rough warriors grapple on the plain,
  6. And with their blood immortal honour gain;
  7. Let the vile miser plough for wealth the deep,
  8. And, shipwrek'd in the unfatbom'd waters, sleep
  9. May Venus grant me but my last desire,
  10. In the full height of rapture to expire.
  11. Perhaps some friend, with kindly dew supplied,
  12. Weeping will say, "As Ovid liv'd, he died."

Poem 11, in which the poet prays that his Mistress will be safe as she travels by sea, is not here translated.

  1. Io Triumphe! I have won the prize,