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. Why were our darting tongues entirely lost?
  2. Nor fret I thou in kissing shouldst excel,
  3. And yet 'tis strange to know to kiss so well;
  4. But ah! such lectures only could be read
  5. By youthful tutors, and imbib'd abed.
  6. That sage who'er these large improvements made,
  7. Was by his pupil preciously repay'd.
  1. Alas! poor Poll, my Indian talker, dies!
  2. Go, birds, and celebrate his obsequies;
  3. Go, birds, and beat your breasts, your faces tear,
  4. And pluck your gaudy plumes instead of hair;