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. But since we must thro' distant regions go,
  2. Why was not the same way design'd for two?
  3. One single care determined still for both,
  4. And the kind virgin join'd the loving youth?
  5. Then should I think it pleasant way to go
  6. Oe'r Alpine frost, and trace the hills of snow;
  7. Then should I dare to view the horrid moors,
  8. And walk the deserts of the Libyan shores;
  9. Hear Scylla bark, and see Charybdis rave,
  10. Suck in and vomit out the threat'ning wave;
  11. Fearless through all I'd steer my feeble barge,
  12. Secure, and safe with the celestial charge,
  13. But now, though here my grateful fields afford
  14. Choice fruits to cheer their malancholy lord;
  15. Though here obedient streams the gard'ner leads,
  16. In narrow channels through my flow'ry beds;
  17. The poplars rise, and spread a shady grove,
  18. Where I might lie, my little life improve,
  19. And spend my minutes 'twixt a muse and love:
  20. Yet these contributes little to my ease,