Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Here in a distant place the hurst amid
  2. He peradventure to himself shall say--
  3. 'None! saw me so misused.' But he is wrong:
  4. 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;