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. Ill as she is, I might endanger her.
  2. By me, I must confess, she did conceive,
  3. The fact is so, or else I so believe;
  4. We've cause to think, what may so likely be,
  5. So is, and then the babe belongs to me
  6. Oh Isis, who delight'st to haunt the fields,
  7. Where fruitful Nile his golden harvest yields,
  8. Where with seven mouths into the sea it falls,
  9. And hast thy walks around Canope's walls,
  10. Who Memphis visit'st, and the Pharian tower,
  11. Assist Corinna with thy friendly powers.
  12. Thee by thy silver Sistra I conjure,
  13. A life so precious by thy aid secure;
  14. So mayst thou with Osiris still find grace:
  15. By Anubis's venerable face,
  16. I pray thee, so may still thy rights divine
  17. Flourish, and serpents round thy offerings twine
  18. May Apis with his horns the pomp attend,
  19. And be to thee, as thou'rt to her, a friend.
  20. Look down, oh Isis! on the teeming fair,