Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Fain would I pedicate thee who'rt Fain to plunder my apples;
  2. An my want thou shalt grant, eke shall be granted thy want.
  1. Form-charms in Mercury have might to please;
  2. Form in Apollo is conspicuous charm;
  3. Formose in picture is Lyaeus limned