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. The bold intruder between thee and love:
  2. Talk not of honour, lay that toy aside,
  3. In men 'tis folly, and in women pride;
  4. There without blushes you may naked lie,
  5. Clasping his body with your tender thigh;
  6. Shoot your moist dart into his mouth, to show
  7. The sense you have of what he acts below;
  8. Try all the ways, your pliant bodies twine,
  9. In folds more strange than those of Aretine:
  10. With melting looks fierce joys you may excite,