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. Talk not of honour, lay that toy aside,
  2. In men 'tis folly, and in women pride;
  3. There without blushes you may naked lie,
  4. Clasping his body with your tender thigh;
  5. Shoot your moist dart into his mouth, to show
  6. The sense you have of what he acts below;
  7. Try all the ways, your pliant bodies twine,
  8. In folds more strange than those of Aretine:
  9. With melting looks fierce joys you may excite,
  10. And with thick dying accents urge delight.
  11. But when you're dress'd, then look as innocent
  12. As if you knew not what such matters meant;
  13. Cozen the prying town, and put a cheat
  14. On it and me, I'll favour the deceit.
  15. False as thou art, why must I daily see
  16. Th' intriguing billet-doux he sends to thee ?
  17. The wanton sonnet, or soft elegy ?
  18. Why does your bed all tumbled seem to say,
  19. See what they've done, see where the lovers lay!
  20. Why do your locks and rumpled head-clothes show