Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And the coarse water-grass to clear afar from my chapel:
  2. That with his open hand ever brings me offerings humble.
  3. Hung up in honour mine are flowery firstlings of spring-tide,
  4. Wreaths with their ears still soft the tender stalklets a-crowning;
  5. Violets pale are mine by side of the poppy-head pallid;
  6. With the dull yellow gourd and apples sweetest of savour;