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. Keep within bounds, and mayst thou ne'er be dry.
  2. Thou canst not think it such a mighty boast,
  3. A torrent has a gentle lover cross'd.
  4. Rivers should rather take the lover's side,
  5. Rivers themselves love's wondrous power have tried.
  6. 'Twas on this score Inachus, pale and wan,
  7. Sickly and green, into the ocean ran ;
  8. Long before Troy the ten-years siege did fear,
  9. Thou, Xanthus, thou Neaera's chains didst wear;
  10. Ask Achelous who his horns did drub,
  11. Straight he complains of Hercules's club.
  12. For Calydon, for all Aetolia
  13. Was then contested such outrageous fray!
  14. It neither was for gold, nor yet for fee;
  15. Dejanira, it was all for thee.
  16. E'en Nile so rich, that rolls thro' sev'n wide doors,
  17. And uppish over all his country scours,
  18. For Asop's daughter did such flame contract,
  19. As not by all that stock of water slack'd.
  20. I might a hundred goodly rivers name,