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. Go, happy ring, who art about to bind
  2. The fair one's finger; may the fair be kind.
  3. Small is the present, tho' the love be great;
  4. May she swift slip thee on thy taper seat.
  5. As she and I, may thou with her agree,
  6. And not too large, nor yet too little be.
  7. To touch her hand thou wilt the pleasure have;
  8. I now must envy what myself I gave.
  9. O! would a Proteus or a Circe change
  10. Me to thy form, that I like thee might range !
  11. Then would I wish thee with her breasts to play,