THE LOVE BOOKS OF OVID
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • EPIGRAM
  • ELEGY I: THE POET EXPLAINS HOW IT IS HE COMES TO SING OF LOVE INSTEAD OF BATTLES.
  • ELEGY II: THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE.
  • ELEGY III: HE COMMENDS HIMSELF TO HIS MISTRESS BY THE MERITS OF HIS POETRY, THE PURITY OF HIS MORALS, AND BY THE VOW OF HIS UNCHANGEABLE FIDELITY.
  • ELEGY IV: OVID, HIS MISTRESS AND HER HUSBAND ARE ALL BIDDEN TO THE SAME SUPPER. HE GIVES HIS MISTRESS, A CODE BY WHICH THEY CAN TESTIFY THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER, BENEATH HER HUSBAND'S VERY EYES.
  • ELEGY V: HIS DELIGHT AT HAVING OBTAINED CORINNA'S FAVOURS
  • ELEGY VI. HE CONJURES THE PORTER TO OPEN THE DOOR OF HIS MISTRESS'S HOUSE.
  • ELEGY VII:
  • ELEGY VIII: HE CURSES A CERTAIN OLD WOMAN OF THE TOWN WHOM HE OVERHEARS INSTRUCTING HIS MISTRESS IN THE ARTS OF A COURTESAN.
  • ELEGY IX: HE COMPARETH LOVE WITH WAR.
  • ELEGY X. HE ENDEAVOURS TO DISSUADE HIS MISTRESS FROM BECOMING A COURTESAN.
  • ELEGY XI: HE ASKS NAPE TO DELIVER A LOVE-LETTER TO HER MISTRESS.
  • ELEGY XII: HE CALLS DOWN CURSES ON THE TABLETS WHICH BRING HIM WORD OF HIS MISTRESS'S REFUSAL.
  • ELEGY XIII: HE ENTREATS THE DAWN TO HASTEN NOT HER COMING.
  • ELEGY XIV: TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO, CONTRARY TO HIS COUNSEL, DYED HER HAIR WITH NOXIOUS COMPOSITIONS, AND HAS NEARLY BECOME BALD.
  • ELEGY XV: THE POETS ALONE ARE IMMORTAL.
  • BOOK II
  • THE ART OF LOVE--BOOK I