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. Buskins embroider'd on their feet they wear,
  2. And spreading trains with pride uneasy bear.
  3. Here, as in Greece the custom was of old,
  4. The image of the goddess we behold
  5. Borne on the heads of maidens, and behind
  6. The priestesses in beauteous rank you find.
  7. An awful silence reigns : the goddess last
  8. Approaches, and with her the pomp is past.
  9. The dress was Greek, and such Halesus wore,
  10. When in a fright he fled the Grecian shore;