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. Did any guilty blush spread o'er my face!
  2. Did I betray thee, maid, or could she spy
  3. The least confession in my conscious eye !
  4. Not that I think it a disgrace to prove
  5. Stol'n sweets, or make a chambermaid my love;
  6. Achilles wanton'd in Briseis' arms,
  7. Atrides bow'd to fair Cassandra's charms:
  8. Sure I am less than these,-then what can bring
  9. Disgrace to me, that so became a king !
  10. But when she look'd on you, poor harmless maid,
  11. You blush'd, and all the kind intrigue betray'd;
  12. Yet still I vow'd, I made a stout defence,
  13. I swore, and look'd as bold as innocence;
  14. "Damme,—egad!" all that, and—"let me die!"'
  15. Kind Venus, do not hear my perjury;
  16. Kind Venus, stop thy ears when lovers lie.
  17. Now, Betty, how will you my oaths requite?
  18. Come, pr'ythee let's compound for more delight;
  19. Faith, I am easy, and but ask a night.
  20. What! start at the proposal? how! deny