Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. What thou may'st constantly give while of it nothing be lost:
  2. Give me what vainly thou'lt long to bestow in the days that are coming
  3. When that invidious beard either soft cheek shall invade;
  4. What unto Jove gave he who, borne by the worshipful flyer,