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 deeds forbid us and thy eyes invite.
  2. Thy actions shock us, and thy beauty moves,
  3. And he who hates thy faults, thy person loves.
  4. Happy, ah ! ever happy should I be,
  5. If I no charms or no defects could see.
  6. Thee I conjure by all our past delights,
  7. Our cheerful days and our transporting nights,
  8. By all the imprecated gods above,
  9. To whom thou art forsworn, but most by Love,