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. Nor with keen clusters wound the parent clay:
  2. As yet no landmark was by lab'rers set,
  3. And none had learned to plough the sea as yet
  4. None as yet knew the use of sails and oars,
  5. Nor ventur'd voyages beyond their shores.
  6. The wit of men the race of men destroys,
  7. And all its pow'rs against itself employs.
  8. How subtle's human nature to contrive
  9. Its proper ruin, and itself deceive!