Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Violets pale are mine by side of the poppy-head pallid;
  2. With the dull yellow gourd and apples sweetest of savour;
  3. Lastly the blushing grape disposed in shade of the vine-tree.
  4. Anon mine altar (this same) with blood (but you will be silent!)