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. 'Twas in the midst and silent dead of night,
  2. When heavy sleep oppos'd my weary sight,
  3. This vision did my troubled mind affright:-
  4. To Sol expos'd there stood a rising ground,
  5. Which cast beneath a spacious shade around;
  6. A gloomy grove of spreading oaks below,
  7. And various birds were perch'd on ev'ry bough;
  8. Just on the margin of a verdant mead,
  9. Where murm'ring brooks refreshing waters spread
  10. To shun the heat I sought this cool recess,
  11. But in this shade I felt my heat no less;
  12. When browzing o'er the flow'ry grass appear'd
  13. A lovely cow, the fairest of the herd.
  14. By spotless white distinguished from the rest,
  15. Whiter than milk from her own udder press'd;
  16. Whiter than falling, or the driven snow,
  17. Before descending mists can make it flow.
  18. She, with a lusty bull, her happy mate,
  19. Delighted, on the tender herbage sat;
  20. There, as he crops the flow'rs, and chews the cud,