Parerga/Ovid's Description of a Frightened Beauty

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OVID'S DESCRIPTION OF A FRIGHTENED BEAUTY.

Exanimes artus et membra trementia vidi,
Ut cùm populeas ventilat aura comas;
Ut leni Zephyro gracilis vibratur arundo,
Summave cùm tepido stringitur unda Noto.
Amor. Lib. I. El. vii. 53.

I saw her pale, her beauteous limbs all trembling;
So poplar leaves, fann'd by soft breezes, quiver;
The shiverings of the slender reed resembling,
Or the light crispings of the wind-swept river.

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