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. To Virgil Mantua owes immortal fame,
  2. Catullus to Verona gives a name;
  3. Why mayn't, if I attempt some great design,
  4. Peligne be as much oblig'd to mine ?
  5. Why mayn't my muse a glorious toil pursue,
  6. And as much honour to my country do ?
  7. A people, who, when Rome has been alarm'd
  8. By foreign foes, in her defence have arm'd;
  9. Beneath your golden banners I have fought
  10. So long, your discipline so much have taught,