Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. That I, a fruitful apple-tree whilom,
  2. For two autumnal seasons barren stand?
  3. Weighs me not down (as deemest thou) old age
  4. Nor am I floggèd by the hailstone hard,