Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Weighs me not down (as deemest thou) old age
  2. Nor am I floggèd by the hailstone hard,
  3. Nor yet my burgeon-gems a-budding new
  4. Are burnt by rigours of a wintry spring: