The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702) excluding Seneca and Manilius Introduced and Annotated by F. J. Van Beeck |
[Lines on Ovids Heroical Epistles] |
The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702) | ||
[Lines on Ovids Heroical Epistles]
Penelopes chast Love, kind Phillis wrong,Sad Briseis suite, and Phædra's Lustfull fire,
The mild Oenones playnts, and praiers among,
And Lemnian Queenes distracted Love and Ire,
The Lybian Dido's sad and swanlike song,
And greife, and Love of desperate Deianire,
Lost Ariadnes ruthfull Moanes and cries,
Th'incestuous Act of the Æolian paire,
The sighes, teares, threates did from Medea rise,
And Loyall Laodamias irksome care,
What pious Hypermnestra did devise,
The Phrygian guest, and beautious Greeke did dare,
The streame-divided Lovers mutual flame,
Acontius snare, Cydippus heedles vowe,
And th'amourous suite of the Learnd Lesbian Dame,
In Latian numbers that divinely flowe
The soft-sould Ovid ear'st indear'd to fame.
The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702) | ||