Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 'None! saw me so misused.' But he is wrong:
  2. 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,
  4. Nausicaä full oft bare in her well-fillèd lap;