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. For without you they lose the power to please;
  2. I seem to walk oe'r the fields of naked sand,
  3. Or tread an antic maze in fairy land,
  4. Where frightful specires, and pale shades appear,
  5. And hollow groans invade my troubled ear;
  6. Where ev'ry breeze that through my arbour flies,
  7. First sadly murmurs, and then turns to sighs.
  8. The vines love elms; what elms from vines remove?
  9. Then why should I be parted from my love?
  10. And yet by me you once devoutly swore,
  11. By your own eyes, those stars that I adore,
  12. That all my bus'ness you would make your own,
  13. And never suffer me to be alone:
  14. But faithless woman nat'rally deceives,
  15. Their frequent oaths are like the falling leaves,
  16. Which when a storm has from the branches tore
  17. Are lost by ev'ry blast, and seen no more:
  18. Yet if you will be true, your vows retrieve,
  19. Be kind, and I can easily forgive ;
  20. Prepare your coach, to me direct your course,