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. He'll leave the house, let you your money fly.
  2. If there's a god above, to whom belongs
  3. The cause of love, and slighted lovers wrongs,
  4. Revenge the false one's mercenary scorn,
  5. And let ill-gotten pelf to dirt return.
  1. If Memnon's fate bewail'd with constant dew,
  2. Does, with the day, his mother's grief renew,
  3. If her son's death mov'd tender Thetis' mind
  4. To swell with tears the waves, with sighs the wind;