Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  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;
  5. Sweet as the pome whereon Acontius limnèd the letters
  6. Which being read his Fair pledged to her love-longing swain;