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. Who practis'd first on boys the cutting steel,
  2. Deserv'd himself the fatal wound to feel.
  3. Couldst thou be capable of Cupid's fires,
  4. Or the least sensible of love's desires,
  5. Some pity thou wouldst have on me, and grant
  6. Thy aid, for what thou canst not know I want.
  7. Ill suits thee now, the warrior's lance to wield,
  8. To mount the manag'd horse, or lift the brazen shield: