Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Nor am I floggèd by the hailstone hard,
  2. Nor yet my burgeon-gems a-budding new
  3. Are burnt by rigours of a wintry spring:
  4. Neither the winds nor rains nor yet the droughts
  5. Caused just complaining to the apple-tree;
  6. Nor me the starling or the robber 'Daw
  7. Or crow as crone old-grown or watery goose
  8. Or thirsty raven e'er endamagèd.
  9. No! but from bearing scribblers' rubbish verse
  10. On labouring branches comes mine every woe.
  1. Sleep, O ye watchdogs! safe, while aid in guarding the garden