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 sister too, with hair dishevell'd, bears
  2. Part of her mother's nature, and her tears.
  3. With those, two fair, two mournful rivals come,
  4. And add a greater triumph to his tomb:
  5. Both hug his urn, both his lov'd ashes kiss,
  6. And both contend which reap'd the greater bliss.
  7. Thus Delia spoke (when sighs no more could last)
  8. Renewing by remembrance pleasures past;
  9. "When youth with vigour did for joy combine,