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. She'll change, and prove, as I would have her, light,
  2. The fair that sings, enchants me with her voice;
  3. Oh, what a gust it gives a lover's joys!
  4. When her shrill shakes afresh his bosom wound,
  5. And from her lips he kisses off the sound;
  6. When her soft fingers touch the silver strings,
  7. And sweetly to the sounding lute she sings;
  8. Who can resist such strong redoubled charms?
  9. Her music melts me, as her beauty warms
  10. If in the dance the nimble nymph I find,
  11. And view how she her pliant limbs does wind,