"Desertless" Quotes from Famous Books
... still enjoys, Or with the shades she dwells; and no where found He dreads the worst, and thinks her not to be. The beauteous damsel from her father's banks Jove saw returning, and, "O, maid!" exclaim'd, "Worthy of Jove, whose charms will shortly bless "Some youth desertless; come, and seek the shade, "Yon lofty groves afford,"—and shew'd the groves,— "While now Sol scorches from heaven's midmost height. "Fear not the forests to explore alone, "But in their deepest shades adventurous ... — The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid |