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. Serpents for hair, in ancient song we meet,
  2. And man and horse with wings instead of feet.
  3. Huge Tityon from the skies the poets flung,
  4. Encelladus's wars with Jove they sung;
  5. How by her spells, and by her voice, to beasts,
  6. The doubtful virgin chang'd her wretched guests;
  7. How Eolus did for Ulysses keep
  8. The winds in bottles while he plough'd the deep:
  9. How Cerberus, three headed, guarded hell;
  10. And from his car the son of Phoebus fell:
  11. How thirsty Tantalus attempts to sip
  12. The stream in vain, that flies his greedy lip:
  13. How Niobe in marble drops a tear,
  14. And a bright nymph was turn'd into a bear:
  15. How Progne, now a swallow, does bemoan
  16. Her sister nightingale, and pheasant son.
  17. In Leda, Danae, and Europa's rapes,
  18. They sing the king of gods in various shapes;
  19. A swan he lies on ravish'd Leda's breast,
  20. And Danae by a golden show'r compress'd;