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. My verses are unequal like his feet,
  2. Yet the long kindly with the shorter meet.
  3. As they with them, why shouldst thou not with me
  4. Comply, my life and my divinity !
  5. Myself, when I am in thy arms, I'll own
  6. Thy subject, and the bed shall be thy throne;
  7. Thou there, my lovely queen, shall give me laws,
  8. Nor in my absence, to rejoice have cause,
  9. Nor ever shall my services be blam'd
  10. Nor shalt thou of thy servant be asham'd.
  11. My poetry's my purse, my fortun's there,