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 life so precious by thy aid secure;
  2. So mayst thou with Osiris still find grace:
  3. By Anubis's venerable face,
  4. I pray thee, so may still thy rights divine
  5. Flourish, and serpents round thy offerings twine
  6. May Apis with his horns the pomp attend,
  7. And be to thee, as thou'rt to her, a friend.
  8. Look down, oh Isis! on the teeming fair,