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. Drunk with the fountain from his melting eye.
  2. Nor Phoebus, nor the muses' queen, could give
  3. Their son, their own prerogative, to live.
  4. Orpheus, the heir of both his parents' skill,
  5. Tam'd wond'ring beasts, not death's more cruel will.
  6. Linus' sad strings on the dumb lute do lie.
  7. In silence forc'd to let their master die.
  8. His mother weeping does his eyelids close,
  9. And on his urn, tears, her last gift, bestows.