Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Wherein wast born and may'st be born again;
  2. I warn thee plundering hand alway repel
  3. And keep the fuel for thy master's fire--
  4. An this be wanting, mind! of wood thou art.
  1. Roses in spring in the autumn fruits and in summer they bring me
  2. Wheat-ears, while to my mind winter is horrible pest;
  3. For that the cold I dread lest I being god made of timber
  4. End me as fuel for fire chopped by those ignorant boors.
  1. I thuswise fashioned I by rustic art
  2. And from dried poplar-trunk (O traveller!) hewn,
  3. This fieldlet, leftwards as thy glances fall,