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. His, sure, had been like my reception, cold.
  2. To men of merit how could she be coy,
  3. Yet to a murd'rer prostitute the joy?
  4. That head which lolls upon your panting breast,
  5. Was lately cover'd with a plumy crest.
  6. Can you the bully to your bed admit ?
  7. Are his hard limbs for ladies' dalliance fit ?
  8. His hands in your embrace you'll find embru'd
  9. With clotted, and perhaps with guiltless blood;
  10. How awkward must it be for you to feel,
  11. Near yours, his thigh that late was cas'd with steel
  12. That ring, the token of his pride and state,
  13. Was with a heavy gauntlet hid of late: