Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Whatever damsel plucks with wanton hand
- This fruitage, never find she one to strum!
- Know, lest due warning be denied by thee,
- An thief thou come male whore shalt surely flee.
- Hadst thou as many of apples as offers of verses (Priapus!),
- Richer than Alcinous ancient of days were thy lot.