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. Why didst thou cities with high walls surround,
  2. Why arms invent thy jarring sons to wound ?
  3. What quarrel hast thou with the sea, and why
  4. Didst thou at first the pathless ocean try ?
  5. Cannot the land content thy restless pride ?
  6. Didst thou with Saturn's sons the whole divide,
  7. Thou wouldst not with three worlds be satisfied.
  8. 'Tis strange thy vast ambition did not fly
  9. O'er earth, and sea, and air, and scale the sky;