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,
  5. Nor yet my burgeon-gems a-budding new
  6. Are burnt by rigours of a wintry spring:
  7. Neither the winds nor rains nor yet the droughts
  8. Caused just complaining to the apple-tree;