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. Why do your locks and rumpled head-clothes show
  2. 'Tis more than usual sleep that made 'em so?
  3. Why are the kisses which he gave, betray'd
  4. By the impression which his teeth had made ?
  5. Yet say you're chaste, and I'll be still deceived;
  6. What much is wish'd for, is with ease believ'd.
  7. But when you own what a lewd wretch thou art,
  8. My blood grows cold and freezes at my heart,
  9. Then do I curse thee, and thy crimes reprove,
  10. But curse in vain, for still I find I love;