Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. When the deep brim-full vats hardly the must shall contain;
  2. So when the threshing-floors all fail for the plentiful harvest
  3. Ceres' ringlets to crown only one garland we bring.
  4. Thou too, a minor god, example borrow from the major--