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P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 16 0 Browse Search
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) 10 0 Browse Search
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard) 4 0 Browse Search
Epictetus, Works (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) 2 0 Browse Search
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley) 2 0 Browse Search
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P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various), Elegy II: To his Mistress at the horse-race. By Henry Cromwell. (search)
is the heat of love." But now the pomp appears, the sacred throng Command applauses from the heart and tongue; First victory with expanded wings does move, Be near, O Goddess ! to assist my love; To Mars let warriors acclamations raise, The merchants' tongues resound with Neptune's praise; Whilst I, whom neither seas nor arms invite, In love alone, the fruit of peace, delight; To their Apollo let the prophets pray, And hunters to Diana homage pay. Let the mechanics to Minerva vow, Rustics to Ceres, and to Bacchus bow; Whilst I devote myself to thee alone, Kind Venus, and the pow'rful god thy son; 0 be propitious to my enterprize, Inform with all thy softness these fair eyes, And to love's cause her gentle breast incline; She grants, and has contriv'd it with a sign; Do you assure it too, you who're to me (With Venus' leave) the mightier deity, By all these heavenly witnesses' to you Will I be ever faithful, ever true. Now ib the open cirque the game's begun, The praetor gives the sign
P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various), Elegy X. (search)
Elegy X. Now Ceres' feast is come, the trees are blown, And my Corinna now must lie alone. And why, good Ceres, must thy feast destroy Man's chief delight, and why disturb his joy ? The world esteems you bountiful and good, You led us from the fielCeres, must thy feast destroy Man's chief delight, and why disturb his joy ? The world esteems you bountiful and good, You led us from the field and from the wood, And gave us fruitful corn, and wholesome food. Till then poor wretched man on acorns fed; Oaks gave him meat, and flow'ry fields a bed. First Ceres made our wheat and barley grow, And taught us how to plough, and how to mow; WhoCeres made our wheat and barley grow, And taught us how to plough, and how to mow; Who then can think that she designs to prove Our piety, by coldness in our love ? Or make poor lovers sigh, lament, and groan, Or charge her votaries to lie alone ? For Ceres, though she loves the fruitful fields, Yet sometimes feels the force of love,Ceres, though she loves the fruitful fields, Yet sometimes feels the force of love, and yields: This Crete can witness, (Crete not always lies) Crete that nurs'd Jove, and heard his infant cries, There he was suckled who now rules the skies. That Jove his education there receiv'd, Will raise her fame, and make her be believ'd; Nay