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. 'Tis water'd well, and verdant all the year,
  2. And birds obscene do never enter there;
  3. There harmless swans securely take their rest,
  4. And there the single Phoenix builds her nest;
  5. Proud peacocks there display their gaudy train,
  6. And billing turtles coo o'er all the plain: