Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. An thief thou come male whore shalt surely flee.
  1. Hadst thou as many of apples as offers of verses (Priapus!),
  2. Richer than Alcinous ancient of days were thy lot.
  1. Why, cultivator, vainly moan to me
  2. That I, a fruitful apple-tree whilom,
  3. For two autumnal seasons barren stand?
  4. Weighs me not down (as deemest thou) old age
  5. Nor am I floggèd by the hailstone hard,
  6. Nor yet my burgeon-gems a-budding new
  7. Are burnt by rigours of a wintry spring: