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. A place for Paris in your verse we find,
  2. And Helen's to the young adult'rer kind;
  3. There lovely Laodamia mourns her lord,
  4. The first that fell by Hector's fatal sword.
  5. If well I know you, and your mind can tell,
  6. The theme's as grateful, and you like as well
  7. To tune your lyre for Cupid as for Mars,
  8. And Thracian combats change for Paphian wars;
  9. If well I know you, and your works design
  10. Your will, you often quit your camp for mine.
  1. If for thyself thou wilt not watch thy whore,
  2. Watch her for me that I may love her more.
  3. What comes with ease we nauseously receive,
  4. Who but a sot would scorn to love with leave?
  5. With hopes and fears my flames are blown up higher;
  6. Make me despair, and then I can desire.
  7. Give me a jilt to tease my jealous mind;
  8. Deceits are virtues in the female kind.
  9. Corinna my fantastic humour knew,
  10. Play'd trick for trick, and kept herself still new;