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. Ah, try the bold experiment no more!
  1. What boots it that the fair are free from war,
  2. And what that they're forbid the shield to bear,
  3. Against themselves if they knew arms employ
  4. And madly with new wounds their lives destroy?
  5. The cruel mother who did first contrive
  6. Her babe to butcher ere 'twas scarce alive,
  7. Who thus from nature's tender dictates swerv'd,