Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Which of ye men be the best so that my man he become.'
  2. Thy heart, Penelope, right sure by such pow'r I had pleasèd,
  3. But at the time not yet had I been made of mankind.
  1. When the fig's honied sweet thy taste shall catch
  2. And hither tempt thee hand of thee to stretch;
  3. Glance at my nature, Thief! and estimate