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. And you the bull, abandon'd to despair.
  2. The picking crow some busy bawd implies,
  3. Who with base arts will soon seduce your prim.
  4. You saw the cow to fresher pasture range,
  5. So will your nymph for richer lovers change;
  6. As mixing with the herd you saw her rove,
  7. So will the fair pursue promiscuous love;
  8. Soon will you find a foul incestuous blot,
  9. As on the cow you view'd the livid spot."
  10. At this my blood retired, with dismal fright,
  11. And left me pale as death ; my fainting sight
  12. Was quite o'ercast in dusky shades of night.
  1. Thy course, thy noble course a while forbear,
  2. I am in haste now going to my dear!
  3. Thy banks how rich, thy stream how worthy praise
  4. Alas, my haste ! sweet river, let me pass.
  5. No bridges here, no ferry, not an oar,
  6. Or rope to haul me to the farther shore !
  7. I have remember'd thee a little one,
  8. Who now with all this flood com'st blund'ring down.