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. I sing before her gate; her gate I find
  2. Is less obdurate than her harden'd mind.
  3. Forbear your songs, Apollo's sons, forbear,
  4. And bend your future thoughts to arms and war.
  5. Instead of inspirations, get commands;
  6. To murder, and to rapine use your hands,
  7. And you with ease reduce the female bands.
  8. Had Homer in the Grecian army serv'd,
  9. We ne'er had heard that he had begg'd, or starv'd.