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. To dread your spirit, and to sooth your spleen.
  2. But, ah! by diff'rent passions I'm oppress'd,
  3. Fierce love and hate contend within my breast;
  4. My soul they thus divide, but love, I fear,
  5. Will prove too strong, and get the mast'ry there;
  6. I'll strive to hate her, but if that should prove
  7. A fruitless strife, in spite of me I'll love.
  8. The bull does not affect the yoke, but still
  9. He bears the thing he hates against his will