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. No holding thee, ill-manner'd upstart flood ;
  2. Not my love-tales can make thee stay thy course,
  3. Thou—zounds, thou art a—river for a horse.
  4. Thou hadst no fountain, but from bears wert pist,
  5. From snows, and thaws, or Scotch unsav'ry mist.
  6. Thou crawl'st along, in winter foul and poor,
  7. In summer puddled like a common-shore.
  8. In all thy days when didst a courtesy ?
  9. Dry traveller ne'er laid a lip to thee.
  10. The bane to cattle, to the meadows worse,
  11. For something all, I for my sufferings curse.
  12. To such unworthy wretch, how am I sham'd,
  13. That I the gen'rous am'rous river nam'd!
  14. When Nile and Achelous I display'd,
  15. And Thame and Ouse, what worm was in my head
  16. For thy reward, discourteous river, I
  17. Wish, be the summers hot, the winters dry.