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. Thy meat was little, and thy prattling tongue
  2. Would ne'er permit to make thy dinner long:
  3. Plain fountain water all thy drink allow'd,
  4. And nut and poppy-seed were all thy food.
  5. The preying vultures and the kites remain,
  6. And the unlucky crow still caws for rain;
  7. The chough still lives 'midst fierce Minerva's hate,
  8. And scarce nine hundred years conclude her fate;