Metamorphosis VIII, 611-724 (Ovid Poems)
Baucis and PhilemonTHUS Achelous ends: his audience hearWith admiration, and admiring, fearThe pow'rs of heav'n; except Ixion's son,Who laugh'd at ...
Ovid Poems (9 Poems)
Disappointment (Ovid Poems)
But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.Yet holding her ...
Elegy for Tibullus (Ovid Poems)
If Memnon's mother mourned, Achilles's mother mourned,and our sad fates can touch great goddesses,then weep, and loose your hair in ...
Metamorphoses: Book The Fourteenth (Ovid Poems)
NOW Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'erThe swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore.Messena, Rhegium, and the barren coastOf ...
On fidelity (Ovid Poems)
I don't ask you to be faithful - you're beautiful, after all -but just that I be spared the pain ...
Love and War (Ovid Poems)
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.Youth is fit for war, ...
In Summer’s Heat (Ovid Poems)
In summer's heat and mid-time of the day,To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,One window shut, the other ...
Elegy V (Ovid Poems)
In summer's heat and mid-time of the dayTo rest my limbs upon a bed I lay,One window shut, the other ...
Magic (Ovid Poems)
YE elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves,And ye that on the sands with printless footDo chase the ebbing ...