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. Not in the Circus do I sit to view
  2. The running horses, but to gaze on you;
  3. Near you I choose an advantageous place,
  4. And whilst your eyes are fix'd upon the race,
  5. Mine are on you—Thus do we feast our sight,
  6. Each alike pleas'd with objects of delight;
  7. In softer whispers I my passion move,
  8. You of the rider talk, but I of love.
  9. When, to please you, I straight my subject quit
  10. And change my wishes to your favourite;
  11. Oh. might I ride, and be so much your care,
  12. I'd start with courage from the barrier,
  13. And with a swift short compass brush the goal—
  14. Unless the sight of you my course restrains,
  15. And makes my hands forego the loosen'd reins;
  16. As Pelops gaz'd on Hippodamia's face,
  17. Till he had almost lost th' important race;
  18. Yet he his mistress by her favour won;
  19. So may our prize assist us when we run.
  20. "What mean these starts? you must not, can't remove: