Priapeia

Priaepia

by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers

  1. Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare
  2. With hand not modest anywise molest,
  3. Me fox no eunuch he shall know and feet.
  4. Here in a distant place the hurst amid
  5. He peradventure to himself shall say--
  6. 'None! saw me so misused.' But he is wrong:
  7. These huge attestors shall the cause maintain.
  1. Rare as those apples wherewith Hippomenes Schoeneïs ravished;
  2. Fair as the fruits that enfam'd Garths of the Hesperid maids;
  3. Fen as one fancies the lot which, pacing her patrial vergers,