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;
  7. Such be the fruits that youth who owneth the flourishing fieldlet
  8. Placed on the table of stone, naked Priapus! for thee.
  1. What hast thou, meddling watch, with me to do?
  2. Why baulk the robber who to me would come?
  3. Let him draw nigh: the laxer shall he go.
  1. Aye in this prickle of ours the bonniest boon to be found is,