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. Suff'ring the fairer sex to break their vows,
  2. To the superior pow'r of beauty bows.
  3. T' inforce my credit to her perjuries,
  4. Oft would she swear by those persuasive eyes;
  5. As if that charm had been too weak to move,
  6. Sh'as added mine;-tell me, ye pow'rs above,
  7. Why all this pain ? why are these guiltless eyes
  8. For her offence th' atoning sacrifice ?
  9. Was't not enough Andromeda has died,
  10. An expiation for her mother's pride ?
  11. Is't not enough, that unconcern'd you see
  12. (Vain witnesses for truth, for faith, for me,)
  13. Such an affront put on divinity,
  14. Yet no revenge the daring crime pursue,
  15. But the deceiv'd must be her victim too?
  16. Either the gods are empty notions, crept
  17. Into the minds of sleepers as they slept,
  18. In vain are fear'd, are but the tricks of law,
  19. To keep the foolish cred'lous world in awe;
  20. Or, if there be a god, he loves the fair,