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. That man did not aspire to be a god,
  2. And tread the paths by Indian Bacchus trod,
  3. To give his name to some distinguish'd star,
  4. And be what Hercules and Caesar are.
  5. Instead of yellow harvests, now we seek
  6. For solid gold, and thro' earth's entrails break;
  7. The wealth we thus acquire's the soldier's prey,
  8. And dearly for the blood he spills we pay.
  9. The courts deny admittance to the poor,